Esther Waters, a novel

About this book

Quoting Wikipedia: "Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee, becomes pregnant, is deserted by her lover, and against all odds decides to raise her child as a single mother. Esther Waters is one of a group of Victorian novels that depict the life of a "fallen woman"."

Subjects

  • 823/.8
  • domestics
  • employés de maison
  • england, fiction
  • england in fiction
  • english literature
  • fiction
  • fiction, family life
  • fiction, family life, general
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, women
  • household employees
  • large type books
  • london (england), fiction
  • long now manual for civilization
  • mères célibataires
  • mères et fils
  • mothers and sons
  • mothers and sons, fiction
  • mothers and sons--fiction
  • mothers and sons in fiction
  • pr5042 .e8 2012
  • roman irlandais de langue anglaise
  • romans, nouvelles
  • unmarried mothers
  • unmarried mothers--fiction
  • unmarried mothers in fiction
  • women domestics
  • women domestics in fiction
  • women household employees
  • women household employees--fiction
  • women household employees in fiction