The Long Day
by Dorothy Richardson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Richardson, Dorothy, 1882-
- Title
- The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production
- Subject
- Women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31118
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31118
- Release Date
- January 29, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE LONG DAY
- 2.THE STORY OF A NEW YORK WORK- ING GIRL * * AS TOLD BY HERSELF — NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1905 — Copyright, 1905, by The Century Co. — Published October, 1905 — THE DEVINNE PRESS — TO MY THREE "LADY-FRIENDS"
- 3.CONTENTS — THE LONG DAY
- 4.I — IN WHICH I ARRIVE IN NEW YORK
- 5.II — IN WHICH I START OUT IN QUEST OF WORK
- 6.III — I TRY "LIGHT" HOUSEKEEPING IN A FOURTEENTH-STREET LODGING-HOUSE
- 7.IV — WHEREIN FATE BRINGS ME GOOD FORTUNE IN ONE HAND AND DISASTER IN THE OTHER
- 8.V — IN WHICH I AM "LEARNED" BY PHŒBE IN THE ART OF BOX-MAKING
- 9.VI — IN WHICH PHŒBE AND MRS. SMITH HOLD FORTH UPON MUSIC AND LITERATURE
- 10.VII — IN WHICH I ACQUIRE A STORY-BOOK NAME AND MAKE THE ACQUAINTANCE OF MISS HENRIETTA MANNERS
- 11.VIII — WHEREIN I WALK THROUGH DARK AND DEVIOUS WAYS WITH HENRIETTA MANNERS
- 12.IX — INTRODUCING HENRIETTA'S "SPECIAL GENTLEMAN-FRIEND"
- 13.X — IN WHICH I FIND MYSELF A HOMELESS WANDERER IN THE NIGHT
- 14.XI — I BECOME AN "INMATE" OF A HOME FOR WORKING GIRLS
- 15.XII — IN WHICH I SPEND A HAPPY FOUR WEEKS MAKING ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS
- 16.XIII — THREE "LADY-FRIENDS," AND THE ADVENTURES THAT BEFALL THEM
- 17.XIV — IN WHICH A TRAGIC FATE OVERTAKES MY "LADY-FRIENDS"
- 18.XV — I BECOME A "SHAKER" IN A STEAM-LAUNDRY
- 19.XVI — IN WHICH IT IS PROVED TO ME THAT THE DARKEST HOUR COMES JUST BEFORE THE DAWN
- 20.EPILOGUE — FOOTNOTE:
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