
By Charlotte Perkins Gillman
First released serially in Gilman's journal the Forerunner in 1909-10, the radical tells the tale of Diantha Bell, a tender girl who leaves her domestic and her fiancé to begin a housecleaning enterprise. A inventive heroine, Diantha quick expands her enterprise into an firm that features a maid provider, cooked meals supply carrier, eating place, and resort. by way of assigning a money worth to women's "invisible" paintings, delivering a way for the future health and ethical uplift of operating ladies, and freeing heart- and leisure-class ladies from the weight of traditional family chores, Diantha proves to her kinfolk and group some great benefits of professionalized housework.