by
William Pett Ridge
London
C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED
HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1898
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In Cap and Apron
Investigative reporter Elizabeth Banks goes undercover to work as a Victorian maid.
by
William Pett Ridge
London
C. ARTHUR PEARSON LIMITED
HENRIETTA STREET, W.C.
1898
The Mock Turtle’s Story
Chapter IChildhood All through my life, at least all my thinking life, I have been on a quest. My search has been with one object in view, and that object has been to find myself. I did not know when I started that Walt Whitman had said, “A man is not all included between his…
Chapter 16 Mord Em’ly said good-bye to Mitchell’s Dining-Rooms, and Mrs. Mitchell kissed her, cried a good deal, and gave to her ten shillings over and above her wages, a number of ham sandwiches, and a bunch of coral that originally came (Mrs. Mitchell said) from goodness only knew where. Miss Mitchell so far unbent…
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Chapter 5 A large, square, green-walled room, with a shuffling crowd at the back; before her, a thoughtful, middle-aged gentleman, on a raised platform, seated at a desk, and signing, with a noisy pen, some blue forms, for which a clerk waited; at the side, two lads, with pencils, one telling the other, in a…
Investigative reporter Elizabeth Banks goes undercover to work as a Victorian maid.