Author: Margaret Isabella Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond
Author: Margaret Isabella Stevenson
Publisher:
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Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oceania
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Her Boys' Home
Author: Clara Willett
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Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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The Taming of John Blunt
Author: Alfred Ollivant
Publisher: Musson Book Company, [191-?]
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher: Musson Book Company, [191-?]
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Card
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Drama and Life
Author: Arthur Bingham Walkley
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Two Kisses
Author: Oliver Onions
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Brand
Author: Henrik Ibsen
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Principal Girl
Author: John Collis Snaith
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Salthaven
Author: William Wymark Jacobs
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Below Stairs
Author: Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
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ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Priscilla Day is 12 at the beginning of the novel and living with her parents. Mr Day has lost his job and they are poor. At 14 Priscilla starts as a skivvy in the village, then a maid in the household of Mr and Mrs Masters. Mrs Masters is a friend of her mother’s but more prosperous and has a son, Harry, to whom Priscilla is attracted. Harry begins to court a local girl and Priscilla decides to move away and gets a job in London. The rest of the novel shows Priscilla’s development. She has various jobs in service and becomes a well-trained parlourmaid. She returns to the village, taking a job in a house near her parents. She meets Harry again and starts walking out with him. She is not happy in her job; the mistress of the house constantly finds fault with the servants. She is also trying to bully a young heiress who lives with her into marrying her wastrel of a son. Priscilla helps the young woman and the expected happy endings materialise.
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ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Priscilla Day is 12 at the beginning of the novel and living with her parents. Mr Day has lost his job and they are poor. At 14 Priscilla starts as a skivvy in the village, then a maid in the household of Mr and Mrs Masters. Mrs Masters is a friend of her mother’s but more prosperous and has a son, Harry, to whom Priscilla is attracted. Harry begins to court a local girl and Priscilla decides to move away and gets a job in London. The rest of the novel shows Priscilla’s development. She has various jobs in service and becomes a well-trained parlourmaid. She returns to the village, taking a job in a house near her parents. She meets Harry again and starts walking out with him. She is not happy in her job; the mistress of the house constantly finds fault with the servants. She is also trying to bully a young heiress who lives with her into marrying her wastrel of a son. Priscilla helps the young woman and the expected happy endings materialise.