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women domestics in fiction

Esther Waters, a novel

By George Moore

Jennie Gerhardt

By Theodore Dreiser

Girl with a Pearl Earring

By Tracy Chevalier

Herself surprised

By Joyce Cary

The farming of bones

By Edwidge Danticat

The old manor house

By Charlotte Turner Smith

Death of a Maid

By Marion Chesney

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

By Clare West

Imitation of life

By Fannie Hurst

Death in lacquer red

By Jeanne M. Dams

Flight of the swan

By Rosario Ferré

The ghost and Mrs. Jeffries

By Emily Brightwell

Mrs. Jeffries reveals her art

By Emily Brightwell

Mrs. 'Arris goes to New York

By Paul Gallico

Mrs. Jeffries questions the answer

By Emily Brightwell