An edition of The Hired Girl (2015)

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An edition of The Hired Girl (2015)

The Hired Girl

printing (1)
  • 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
Walker Books
Language
English
Pages
480

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Cover of: The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl
Dec 26, 2017, Candlewick
paperback
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Hired Girl
2017, Candlewick Press
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Hired Girl
Dec 26, 2017, Turtleback Books
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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: Hired Girl
Hired Girl
2015, Candlewick Press
in English
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
in English
Cover of: The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl
2015 September 19, Recorded Books
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Cover of: The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl
2015, Candlewick Press
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Published in
London
Copyright Date
2016

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
468p.
Number of pages
480

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL35694323M
Internet Archive
hiredgirl0000schl_e8t3
ISBN 10
1406365939
ISBN 13
9781406365931
OCLC/WorldCat
954103805, 59751610

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