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Author : Octave Mirbeau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108018558299
Author : Emma Southgate
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 052284698X
A very busy day. Lord and Lady Carrington arrived from England. Miss Harbord, 3 Gentlemen in Suite, 3 children, two nurses, two maids, 2 valets. Every room occupied. 47 to dinner-in State dining room-and 500 in the evening. All went off capitally. We got to bed soon after 2 a.m.' The reliable, hard-working and loyal Emma Southgate began her diary when she journeyed across rough seas and under stormy skies from England to Australia in 1884. She travelled as lady's maid to Lady Loch, wife of the newly appointed Governor of Victoria. When they arrived in Melbourne and took up residence in the magnificent Government House, Emma had the presence of mind to continue her record of daily life. The legacy of her diligence is published here for the first time. Through Emma's words we can relive the halcyon days of colonial times: sumptuous parties in elegant ballrooms and receptions on rolling lawns; stylish travel through the colonies of Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia; holidays in a grand home at Mount Macedon; important international visitors; and the social whirl that accompanied occasions such as Melbourne Cup week. These events are charmingly described in Emma's diaries from a behind-the-scenes point of view-the weariness of having to serve tea to thousands of 'ladies and gentlemen', visits to the poor and excursions to the beach, illnesses among staff and the kindnesses of her employers. Emma's authentic evocation of her life sparkles. Unpretentious and forthright, Emma's words captivate the reader as they bring to life the people, the places and the times. Besides Emma's accounts, Helen Vellacott has placed the newspaper reports of the day that show the official view-often quite different from Emma's observations. In this way, and with intriguing additional comment and information, Diary of a Lady's Maid gives us an insight into early Australian society.
Author : Joe Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781413736076
Although the story opens and closes in present-day Spain, the real beginnings are set in the early 1900s when, in Africa, the well-equipped army of the British Empire was being humbled by a few Boer farmers whose only uniform was a slouch hat and a bandolier over everyday work clothes. In England, with the wealth of the aristocracy in decline, Lord and Lady Blanchford-Carter decided to augment their dwindling finances by transforming part of their stately mansion into a high-class brothel for the upper echelons of society. Into this strange household came the young and innocent Helen Sarsfield to commence employment as a scullery maid. In Ireland, Helen's twin brother enlisted in the Connaught Rangers, and would soon depart for Africa, leaving behind his sweetheart in an Ireland rife with talks of insurrection; a place where James Connolly was reminding people that England's difficulty was Ireland's opportunity.
Author : coolkyousinnjya,Ayami Kazama
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781645051398
Some people live to work, others work to live. But Elma works to...eat! Elma is a Harmony Dragon who came to the human world to bring fellow dragon Tohru back home. In order to stay close to Tohru, Elma has taken a job as an office lady (OL). This charming new series from the world of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid follows the 9-to-5 adventures of Elma as she learns to work and eat her way through the OL life. From mixed-up mixers to death marches, Elma learns that being an OL is just as hard as being a dragon...
Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307823021
“Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.”—Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady’s maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress’ s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years. It is Lily who smuggles Miss Barrett out of the gloomy Wimpole Street house, witnesses her secret wedding to Robert Browning in an empty church, and flees with them to threadbare lodgings and the heat, light, and colors of Italy. As housekeeper, nursemaid, companion, and confidante, Lily is with Elizabeth in every crisis–birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lily’s own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given. Praise for Lady's Maid “[A] wonderful novel . . . fully imagined and persuasive fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . heartbreaking . . . grips the reader's imagination on every page . . . [Margaret] Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Extremely readable . . . The author's sense of the nineteenth century seems innate.”—The New Yorker “Highly recommended . . . an engrossing novel of the colorful Browning ménage.”—Library Journal “Delightful . . . entertaining.”—Vogue
Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Random House
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446443576
London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No. 50, Wimpole Street. Subtly and compellingly, Lady's Maid gives voice to Elizabeth Wilson's untold story, her complex relationship with her mistress, Elizabeth Barrett, and her dramatic role in the most famous elopement in history.
Author : coolkyousinnjya,Ayami Kazama
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781645051404
Being a harmony dragon has nothing on the challenges of office work! From learning how to make box lunches to surviving all-out ramen battles, Elma is finding life as an office lady in Japan to be delicious. But when her office is reorganized, can she rise to the challenge--and should she even try?
Author : Krishna Baldev Vaid
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131773355
Post-Independence Hindi literature is by and large dominated by the representations of urban, middle class life. Given this context, the focus of Krishna Baldev Vaid's The Diary of a Maidservant is unusual. While the setting is still the big city, the novel bridges the class-divide to delineate the life and thoughts of a young woman who earns a living as a casual household help. The story revolves around Shanti, a teenage maidservant. The generous and literate Mrs Varma gives Shanti a notebook to write in. Through this 'diary' Shanti gradually discovers all kinds of things about herself-impulses, dreams, contradictions. The same diary unfolds the forces an intelligent but poor girl has to contend with in burgeoning New Delhi. Shanti must cope with a family struggling to survive, predatory males, demanding mistresses, and a multitude of her own desires. Even the kindness of her middle-aged employers Biji and Newspaper Sahab-two people who idealistically set out to improve Shanti'slot in life-brings problems with it. Dedicated to hard-working women domestics, Krishna Baldev Vaid thrusts the reader directly into the complications of everyday relationships between masters and servants, and men and women. The Introduction to the volume has been written by Ashok Vajpeyi, a distinguished poet, critic, and editor. The novel, an absorbing read, and the analytically rich introduction by Professor Ashok Vajpeyi, a distinguished poet and academic, will appeal to students and scholars of literature in general and Indian literature in translation in particular, comparative literature, gender studies, cultural studies, as well as general readers.
Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547743880
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Diary of a Provincial Lady (Unabridged Edition With Original Illustrations)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. When the editor of Time and Tide wanted some light "middles", preferably in serial form, E. M. Delafield promised to think of something to submit'. It was thus, in 1930, that her most popular and enduring work Diary of a Provincial Lady was written. This largely autobiographical novel which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s is a humorous account of a house-wife and a mother who juggles her life at home and yet goes on to successfully publish her first book. Excerpt: "November 7th.—Plant the indoor bulbs. Just as I am in the middle of them, Lady Boxe calls. I say, untruthfully, how nice to see her, and beg her to sit down while I just finish the bulbs. Lady B. makes determined attempt to sit down in armchair where I have already placed two bulb-bowls and the bag of charcoal, is headed off just in time, and takes the sofa." (The Diary of a Provincial Lady) E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author who is best known for her autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, The Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen.
Author : John Longe
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843833574
Pocket-books and other documents of a gentleman-parson bring the Georgian era vividly to life.
Author : Coolkyousinnjya
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781645058106
SEASONABLY SWEET Elma, the food-loving dragon, is happily working at Miss Kobayashi’s company. She enjoys the flavors of fall, celebrates Christmas with all of her friends, and even becomes a senpai when a new hire arrives. This adorable harmony dragon works almost as much as she eats in the latest volume of this heartwarming workplace comedy!!
Author : Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192562319
Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests instead that boredom was central to the experience of empire. Combining individual stories of pain and perseverance with broader analysis, Professor Auerbach considers what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India. He reveals that for numerous men and women, from explorers to governors, tourists to settlers, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, Imperial Boredom demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work tedious and unfulfilling. The empires early years may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project. Many books about the British Empire focus on what happened; this book concentrates on how people felt.
Author : Octave Mirbeau
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066389918
The novel presents itself as the diary of Mademoiselle Célestine R., a chambermaid. Her first employer fetishizes her boots, and she later discovers the elderly man dead, with one of her boots stuffed into his mouth. Later on, Célestine becomes the maid of an upper class couple, Lanlaire, and is perfectly aware that she is entangled in the power struggles of their marriage. Célestine ends by becoming a café hostess, who mistreats her servants in turn!_x000D_ Excerpt:_x000D_ "To-day, September 14, at three o'clock in the afternoon, in mild, gray, and rainy weather, I have entered upon my new place. It is the twelfth in two years. Of course I say nothing of the places which I held in previous years. It would be impossible for me to count them. Ah! I can boast of having seen interiors and faces, and dirty souls. And the end is not yet. Judging from the really extraordinary and dizzy way in which I have rolled, here and there, successively, from houses to employment-bureaus, and from employment-bureaus to houses, from the Bois de Boulogne to the Bastille, from the Observatory to Montmartre, from the Ternes to the Gobelins, everywhere, without ever succeeding in establishing myself anywhere, the masters in these days must be hard to please. It is incredible..."
Author : Thomas Power O'Connor,Holbrook Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : British periodicals
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069714305
Author : Coolkyousinnjya
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781645052180
A TASTE FOR THE OL LIFE Working in the human world is full of unexpected new surprises! Elma earns her first bonus, and does battle with makeup, pickup artists, and office drinking parties. Tohru, Kanna, Lucoa, and the rest of the usual suspects all make appearances as Elma devours her way through the life of a modern-day Office Lady!