A Manual for Cleaning Women
Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.
Author: Lucia Berlin
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374712867
Category: Fiction
Page: 432
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A Manual for Cleaning Ladies
Welcome Home
"As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond.
Author: Lucia Berlin
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374718326
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 176
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Evening in Paradise
Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Lucia Berlin’s remaining stories – a jewel-box follow-up for her hungry fans.
Author: Lucia Berlin
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509882324
Category: Fiction
Page:
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The Wives
The Wives is a story from Lucia Berlin, whose tales "swoop low over towns and moods and minds” (The New York Times)...
Author: Lucia Berlin
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781250771612
Category: Fiction
Page: 32
View: 841
Homesick
This collection of short stories includes such titles as "Angels Laundromat," "Her first detox," "Noel, 1974," and "Manual for cleaning women"
Author: Lucia Berlin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Fiction
Page: 280
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Thinking Design Through Literature
This is one of the various and sundry improvised instruments designed, made,
and played by Paweł Romańczuk, leader of ... In Lucia Berlin's short story “A
Manual for Cleaning Women, ”freedom isn't exclusive to Sunday; it is stolen here
and ...
Author: Susan Yelavich
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351777963
Category: Design
Page: 346
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Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English
Emma Young and James Bailey, 'Introduction' to British Women Short-Story
Writers: The New Woman to Now (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015),
p. 10. Lucia Berlin, 'Point of View', in A Manual for Cleaning Women (London: ...
Author: Paul Delaney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474400663
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 316
View: 637
A Manual of Roman Antiquities
Under the emperors the pænula was worn in the city as a protection against the
rain and cold ; ' but women were forbidden by ... White fascia , worn by men , "
were a sign of extraordinary refinement in dress : the mode of cleaning them was
by ...
Author: Charles Anthon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Rome
Page: 451
View: 529
A Manual of English Prose Literature
China vessels are playthings for women of all ages . An old lady of fourscore
shall be as busy in cleaning an Indian mandarin , as her great - granddaughter is
in dressing her baby . “ The common way of purchasing such trifles , if I may
believe ...
Author: William Minto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: English language
Page: 634
View: 925
A Manual of Practical Hygiene
The Medical Department of the Local Government Board have issued a
Memorandum 1 dealing with the provision of isolation hospital ... winter to 60 °
Fahr . ; keeping cool in summer ; means of disposal of excrements and slops ;
and for cleaning and disinfecting linen . ... less than four rooms in two separate
pairs ; each pair to receive the sufferers from one infectious disease , men and
women , of course ...
Author: Edmund Alexander Parkes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Hygiene
Page: 769
View: 157
A Manual for the practice of surgery
TREATMENT , - If the calculus can be removed by forceps carefully used , this
practice is the right one to adopt ; it is , however , rarely successful , and ... In
women , hysterical retention may also occur , as well as retention from other
uterine causes . ... though it is well to impress upon nurses the necessity of
paying attention to the infant ' s penis , and of cleaning it daily ; since a want of
such attention is ...
Author: Thomas Bryant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category:
Page: 1005
View: 646
The Diseases of Women
A Manual for Physicians and Students Heinrich Fritsch. the case , that is ,
whenever there is obstruction , the hollow cylinder fills and the apparatus must be
looked after or set agoing again . ... The bed is kept clean by waterproof
underlays .
Author: Heinrich Fritsch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Generative organs, Female
Page: 355
View: 358
A Manual of Psychological Medicine
Containing the History, Nosology, Description, Statistics, Diagnosis, Pathology,
and Treatment of Insanity, with an Appendix of Cases John Charles Bucknill ...
small to receive and entertain the great number of distracted persons , both men
and women , who stood in need of it . ... for a bed ; or if they are so senseless as
not to be fit to make use of one , they are every day provided with fresh clean
straw .
Author: John Charles Bucknill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category:
Page: 536
View: 182
A Manual of psychological medicine
in London , a large building was erected in 1675 , in Moorfields , * where the
Hospital stood until 1814 . ... place for a bed ; or if they are so senseless as not to
be fit to make use of one , they are every day provided with fresh clean straw . ...
For the summer time , to air themselves , there are two large grass - plats - - one
for the men , the other for the women ; in the winter , a stove for each apart ,
where a ...
Author: Sir John Charles Bucknill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Psychiatry
Page: 600
View: 234
Home Sanitation a Manual for Housekeepers
But the physical life is no more to be established on this confused and chaotic
system than the intellectual or the moral life . ... we could save all our breathing
for the year , and condense it into the brief period after the spring cleaning ,
spasmodic effort ... MANUAL OF PRACTICAL HYGIENE SANITARY WORK FOR
WOMEN .
Author: Association of Collegiate Alumnae
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Hygiene
Page: 80
View: 290
A Manual of Jail Discipline and Economy
For the Use of Officers in Charge of Jails in the North Western Provinces North-
Western Provinces (India). Inspector ... Cleaning Hospital . Convalescents .
Name of Prisoner . Infirm and Blind . Total . Men . Cooks . Women . Age . Crime
and ...
Author: North-Western Provinces (India). Inspector General of Prisons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Prison administration
Page: 46
View: 868
The Manual of Dates
A Dictionary of Reference to All the Most Important Events in the History of
Mankind to be Found in Authentic Records George Henry Townsend ... The last -
mentioned was the first English actress of celebrity . Pepys saw women on the
stage for the first time , Jan . 13 , 1662 . The ... A tax for cleaning the streets of
Edinburgh was imposed in 1687 and in 1691 ; and an act relative to the
cleanliness of the ...
Author: George Henry Townsend
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Chronology, Historical
Page: 1082
View: 273
A Manual of the N lagiri District in the Madras Presidency
As soon as the parchment coffee reaches the cleaning agent , it is exposed to the
sun for another day or two , and it is then peeled by ... After being sized by
machinery , the coffee is handed over to the garbling women who , with CH .
Author: Henry Bidewell Grigg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Natural history
Page: 578
View: 932
the chemist a monthly journal of chemical pholosophy and of chemistry applied to the arts manufactures agriculture and medicine and record of pharmacy volume ii new series
... than is desired , it is removed and washed in | After its arrival , it water , and
afterwards fixed with hyposul - cleaning . Women OTE ON phite with or without
heat . ployed to pick out th THE grammes . and other inpurities Hyposulphite of
soda .
Author: John and Charles Watt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category:
Page:
View: 518
