Author: Francis Wrigley Hirst
Publisher: London, Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Financial crises
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Six Panics and Other Essays
Author: Francis Wrigley Hirst
Publisher: London, Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Financial crises
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: London, Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Financial crises
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Second-class Passenger and Other Stories
Below Stairs
Author: Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Priscilla Day is 12 at the beginning of the novel and living with her parents. Mr Day has lost his job and they are poor. At 14 Priscilla starts as a skivvy in the village, then a maid in the household of Mr and Mrs Masters. Mrs Masters is a friend of her mother’s but more prosperous and has a son, Harry, to whom Priscilla is attracted. Harry begins to court a local girl and Priscilla decides to move away and gets a job in London. The rest of the novel shows Priscilla’s development. She has various jobs in service and becomes a well-trained parlourmaid. She returns to the village, taking a job in a house near her parents. She meets Harry again and starts walking out with him. She is not happy in her job; the mistress of the house constantly finds fault with the servants. She is also trying to bully a young heiress who lives with her into marrying her wastrel of a son. Priscilla helps the young woman and the expected happy endings materialise.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Priscilla Day is 12 at the beginning of the novel and living with her parents. Mr Day has lost his job and they are poor. At 14 Priscilla starts as a skivvy in the village, then a maid in the household of Mr and Mrs Masters. Mrs Masters is a friend of her mother’s but more prosperous and has a son, Harry, to whom Priscilla is attracted. Harry begins to court a local girl and Priscilla decides to move away and gets a job in London. The rest of the novel shows Priscilla’s development. She has various jobs in service and becomes a well-trained parlourmaid. She returns to the village, taking a job in a house near her parents. She meets Harry again and starts walking out with him. She is not happy in her job; the mistress of the house constantly finds fault with the servants. She is also trying to bully a young heiress who lives with her into marrying her wastrel of a son. Priscilla helps the young woman and the expected happy endings materialise.
Europe in Renaissance and Reformation, 1453-1659
Author: Mary Albright Hollings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Stempenyu
Health Through Diet
Author: Kenneth George Haig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diet
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Two Kisses
Religion in Evolution
Author: Frank Byron Jevons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Card
Author: Arnold Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu
Author: Sax Rohmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description