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Presents the classic story of Tess, a young woman who finds herself the victim of men, fate, and forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England, and includes a history of critical commentary on the novel, and five analytical essays.

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.

Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley is visited by a young director who takes her back to Riverton House where she reveals the secret behind the death of a young poet in the summer of 1924.

When Anne Johnson begins hearing voices in her head warning her that there will be a murder in her apartment building in thirty days, she sets out to stop the killer before time runs out.

"This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, D.C., in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living In, Living Out, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked for wealthy white families. These women describe how they encountered - but never accepted - the master-servant relationship, and recount the strategies they used to change their status from "live in" servants to daily paid workers who "lived out"--P. [4] of cover.

A maid for a prominent family in Missouri chases down justice after her younger sister is one of 42 people killed at a mysterious explosion at a local dance hall in this new novel from the author of Winter's Bone.

Alma DeGreer Dunahew, a mother of three and maid for a prominent family in West Table, Missouri, struggles with the death of her scandalous sister in an explosion at a local dance hall in 1929.

A girl searches to find her place in American culture when her mother, formerly a schoolteacher in El Salvador, now must work as a live-in housekeeper to an affluent family.