DUDDEN, Faye E.

SERVING WOMEN HOUSEHOLD SERVICE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, [1983]. First edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth, gilt spine. 344 pp. Early neat underlining, else good in a very good dust jacket. 

First edition. "Domestic service employed more women in nineteenth century America than any other occupation ... [this book] re-creates the conditions of service: the lack of privacy and control of one's freedom, the arduous and lonely labor, the isolation from family and home life ..." from the publisher. Item #667

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