"Toilers of the Home" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's
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After graduation from Mount Holyoke, Lillian Pettengill took jobs as a domestic servant to write about her experience in a four-part series for Everybody's Magazine, republished soon after as a book for Doubleday.
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The reporting was intended for these media types: Magazine, Book
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Pettengell's effort followed a number of similar efforts, most notably "The Woman Who Toils, Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls," the best-selling effort of the sisters-in-law, Bessie and Marie (Mrs. John) van Vorst, also published as a series in Everybody's and then as a book by Doubleday.
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I- "Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" -Lillian Pettengill -Everybody's Magazine | "A College Woman's Experiences as a Domestic Servant"
March 1, 1903II-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
April 1, 1903III-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
May 1, 1903IV-"Toilers of the Home: A College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant" - Lillian Pettengill - Everybody's Magazine
June 1, 1903Lillian Pettengill's "Toilers of the Home: The Record of a College Woman's Experience as a Domestic Servant"
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