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Bainbridge was the patron of the People's Book Prize. Bainbridge was still working on The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress at the time of her death. The novel, which was based on a real-life journey Bainbridge made across America in 1968, is about the mystery girl reputed to have been involved in the assassination of Robert Kennedy .
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive is the first book by Stephanie Land, published by Hachette Books on January 22, 2019. The book—an elaboration of an article Land wrote for Vox in 2015—debuted at number three on The New York Times Best Seller list. The book was adapted to the Netflix television miniseries Maid (2021).
The Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) is a 1900 decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau, published during the Dreyfus Affair.First published in serialized form in L’Écho de Paris from 1891 to 1892, Mirbeau’s novel was reworked and polished before appearing in the Dreyfusard journal La Revue Blanche in 1900.
La Vieille Fille (French pronunciation: [la vjɛj fij], The Old Maid or An Old Maid) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac.Written in 1836, it was first published as a serial in La Presse, then published by Edmond Werdet in 1837 in Études de mœurs, in the section les Scènes de la vie de province.
A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded showing Mr. B intercepting Pamela's first letter home to her mother. Pamela Andrews is a pious, virtuous fifteen-year-old, the daughter of impoverished labourers, who works for Lady B as a maid in her Bedfordshire estate.
The Beggar Maid may refer to: "The Beggar Maid", a short story by Alice Munro in the book Who Do You Think You Are? The Beggar Maid (film) , a 1921 American silent drama film
Whore dialogues are a literary genre of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and a type of erotic fiction.The first example was the Ragionamenti by Pietro Aretino, followed by such works as La Retorica delle Puttane (The Whores' Rhetoric) (1642) by Ferrante Pallavicino; L'École des Filles (The School for Girls) (1655), attributed to Michel Millot and Jean L'Ange and also known as The School ...