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Ann Mattis, Dirty Work: Domestic Service in Progressive Women's Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019, $75.00). Pp. 248. isbn 978 0 4721 3129 7.

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Ann Mattis, Dirty Work: Domestic Service in Progressive Women's Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019, $75.00). Pp. 248. isbn 978 0 4721 3129 7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2021

SINÉAD MOYNIHAN
SINÉAD MOYNIHAN*
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University of Exeter
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , E5
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References

1 Sarah Orne Jewett, “Elleneen,” McClure's Magazine, Feb. 1901, 335–38. On Irish domestic workers in the period covered by Mattis's book see Lynch-Brennan, Margaret E., The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840–1930 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009)Google Scholar; and Murphy, Maureen, “Bridget and Biddy: Images of the Irish Servant Girl in Puck Cartoons, 1880–1890,” in Fanning, Charles, ed., New Perspectives on the Irish Diaspora (Carbondale: University of Southern Illinois Press, 2000), 152–75Google Scholar.

2 Palmer, Phyllis, Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920–1945 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989)Google Scholar; Harris, Trudier, From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982)Google Scholar; Katzman, David Manners, Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978)Google Scholar; Wilson, Mary, The Labors of Modernism: Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013)Google Scholar; May, Vanessa, Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York 1870–1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.