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It's Monday, Mrs. Jolly Bones
Mrs. Jolly Bones goes through the week, doing chores in her unique way.
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\Kitchen Queens\ and \Tributary Housekeepers\: Irish Servant Stories in Nineteenth-Century Women's Magazine Fiction
The popularity of stories about Irish domestics in nineteenth-century American women's magazines reveals much about the functions of such stories as well as the complicated relationship between Irish domestic workers and their American employers. The arrival of so many young, typically unmarried Irish immigrant women coincided with the rapid growth of the American middle class to create \"Biddy,\" the stock Irish servant character in the American literary imagination. While the status of real Irish women and their place in the larger American hndscape changed throughout the century, Biddy was a persistent and remarkably static figure in women s magazine fiction, suggesting that the character functioned in ways that were not directly tied to the sodoeconomic status of the Irish as a minority group. Women's magazine fiction suggests that the rehtive proximity of Irish women—and the resultant interconnectedness of the lives of Irish servants and their employers—proved a source of deep anxiety among American women. Indeed, stories about Irish servants in women's magazines reveal much about the uncertainty of each woman's function, not just in the household but in the broader American culture.
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A trio of tolerable tales
In these stories, Ramsay runs away from relatives, Bob is raised by dogs and Dorinda does housework for distant relatives, and Wenda and her woodchuck companion need to find a way to outsmart Widow Wallop.
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Little golden book mommy stories
\"Three classic Golden Books make this mini-treasury a loving tribute to the most wonderful woman we know--Mom\"--Back cover.
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“A Fool Will Never Be Happy”: Kurahashi Yumiko's Retelling of “Snow White”
I analyze how Kurahashi Yumiko (1935–2005) reworks the Grimms' “Snow White” in the fairy-tale collectionOtona no tame no zankoku dōwa(Cruel Fairy Tales for Adults). Exploring Kurahashi's approach to fairy tales and her controversial relation with postmodernism and gender studies, I focus on how “Shirayuki hime” (Snow White) reproduces and deconstructs the models of femininity conveyed by the Grimms' tale.
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The address : a novel
\"After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility, no mean feat for a servant in 1884 ... In 1985, Bailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities. Fresh out of rehab, the former party girl and interior designer is homeless, jobless, and penniless. Two generations ago, Bailey's grandfather was the ward of famed architect Theodore Camden. But the absence of a genetic connection means Bailey won't see a dime of the Camden family's substantial estate ... One hundred years apart, Sara and Bailey are both tempted by and struggle against the golden excess of their respective ages-- for Sara, the opulence of a world ruled by the Astors and Vanderbilts; for Bailey, the free-flowing drinks and cocaine in the nightclubs of New York City --and take refuge and solace in the Upper West Side's gilded fortress. But a building with a history as rich, and often tragic, as The Dakota's can't hold its secrets forever, and what Bailey discovers in its basement could turn everything she thought she knew about Theodore Camden, and the woman who killed him, on its head\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Tenants
After refusing to sell his large house or rent out any of its many rooms, a man begins to notice he's not alone.
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