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Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London

Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London

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Number of Chapters: 21

Length: 06 hours and 18 minutes

Language: English

Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist who, at about age 23, moved to London. While trying to break into English journalism and to keep the wolf from the door, she struck upon the idea of hiring out as a housemaid in some London household and writing about her experiences. Subsequently, she became a street sweeper, flower-seller, and a laundress. On the flip side, she advertised as an heiress and demonstrated how easy it was for a wealthy American to "buy a pedigree" and entry into the higher social circles. This book is her relation of these experiences.
These were her public-facing accounts. She gives a more personal, behind-the-scenes version in The Autobiography of a Newspaper Girl. - Summary by TriciaG

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Preface (TriciaG)
In Cap and Apron: "Liberty" and "Independence" (TriciaG)
In Cap and Apron: Seeking a Situation (TriciaG)
In Cap and Apron: "Elizabeth Barrows," Housemaid (TriciaG)
In Cap and Apron: Rough Places "Smoothed Over" (TriciaG)
In Cap and Apron: Without a "Character" (TriciaG)
In Cap and Apron: Parlourmaid to Mrs. Brownlow (TriciaG)
In Cap and Apron: My Last Days in Service (TriciaG)
In Cap and Apron: The Merits of Domestic Service (TriciaG)
The "Almighty Dollar" in London Society: Advertising for a Chaperon (TriciaG)
The "Almighty Dollar": Offers of Marriage (TriciaG)
The "Almighty Dollar": What It would Cost (TriciaG)
The "Almighty Dollar": Interesting Antecedents (TriciaG)
The Price of a Pedigree (TriciaG)
Sweeping a Crossing (TriciaG)
A Day with the Flower-Girls (TriciaG)
Among the Laundry-Girls: Why and How I Became One of Them (TriciaG)
Among the Laundry-Girls: At Work in a "Sanitary Laundry" (TriciaG)
Among the Laundry-Girls: A Contest with Flat-Irons (TriciaG)
Among the Laundry-Girls: The Day of My Resignation (TriciaG)
Among the Laundry-Girls: "Soap-Suds Island" and the East-End (TriciaG)
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