An edition of The Hired Girl (2015)

Hired Girl

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Hired Girl
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An edition of The Hired Girl (2015)

Hired Girl

  • 4.2 (36 ratings) ·
  • 331 Want to read
  • 30 Currently reading
  • 54 Have read

Ever since the untimely death of her mother, 14 year-old Joan Skraggs has been desperately unhappy. Under the thumb of her cruel father and three sullen brothers, Joan lives like a servant on their farm just outside of Lancaster, forever cooking, cleaning, and attending to the many demands of the home. But she has little freedom, and less support from her family for her love of reading and blossoming interest in education. But when her father tells Joan she can't go to school anymore, it sets off a journey that will see her become first a runaway, then a hired girl on $6 a week, and finally her very own young woman. Set in America during the optimistic years before the First World War, and told through a series of journal entries, THE HIRED GIRL is the story of a young girl in search of Real Life and True Love. It takes in feminism and housework; money, religion, and social class; literature and education, romanticism and realism, first love and sexual yearnings, cats, hats, and bunions. And it's a comedy.

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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Pages
400

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Cover of: The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl
Dec 26, 2017, Candlewick
paperback
Cover of: The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl
2016, Walker Books
paperback in English - printing (1)
Cover of: The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl
2015, Walker Books
Hardcover in English - printing (1)
Cover of: The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl
2015, Walker Books
Hardcover in English - printing (1)
Cover of: Hired Girl
Hired Girl
2015, Candlewick Press
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Cover of: The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl
2015, Candlewick Press
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