women domestics

The life of sixteen-year-old Griet is transformed forever when she goes to work as a maid in the home of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and catches the eye of the famous artist.

In 1718, sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally becomes an apothecary's maid in order to protect the father of her unborn child from scandal, but as she learns more about her new master's work, she fears for her unborn child's life and her own fate.

Twelve-year-old Rosa's excitement over going to the city with her father turns to despair when she realizes he has been forced to sell her into service as a maid, and her life continues on a downward spiral when she becomes pregnant by her abusive master and is thrown out into the streets to live or die as the gods may choose.

A novel that centers on the abduction of disturbed heiress Isabel Ireland, whose husband, Henry, died in a fall from his horse, and a collection of characters from all levels of 1860s English society who keep Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard running in circles.

A young woman from Antigua comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple and observes the growing problems in her employers' marriage while exploring her newfound sexuality.

Am?rica Gonzalez leaves Puerto Rico for a job as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York.

Holland comes to dazzling life in this richly imagined portrait of Griet, a sixteen year old of the 1660s who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.

Imagines the young woman in Johannes Vermeer's mysterious painting "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" as a sixteen-year-old Dutch girl named Griet who sparks the interest of the artist when she becomes a maid in his turbulent household.