women domestics

Teenager Lucy arrives in America from the West Indies to work as a nanny for Lewis and Mariah and their four children, but she quickly realizes that the world of this family is far from perfect.

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.

When Hanna Willer begins working as a maid for Isabelle Martin, the two women form a unique friendship, and when Isabelle's husband dies under mysterious circumstances, Hanna finds herself defending her employer despite public ridicule and hatred.

Amelia Bedelia and her cousin, helping to prepare a surprise shower, make some arrangements that are not quite what the guests expected.

Leilani has ideas about life, love and family that clash with those of her traditional Tahitian mother Materena. But Leilani learns that her mother's everyday wisdom and affirming nature will guide her through her most difficult trials.

In 1664, sixteen-year-old Griet enters the Vermeer household as a servant. Daughter of a Delft tile maker, she has a natural eye for color and design. Daily, she cleans the studio, learning much about how Vermeer sees the people he paints. As his attention focuses on her, she slowly becomes one of his subjects.