boarding-and

Updated: June 4, 2025

We need a well-regulated system of boarding-and lodging-houses where we can live with decency upon the small wages we receive. We do not want any so-called "working girls' homes" God forgive the euphemism! which, while overcharging us for the miserable accommodations, at the same time would put us in the attitude of charity dependants.

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself

For obvious reasons, I have been obliged to give fictitious names to factories and shops in which I worked; and I have, in most cases, substituted for the names of the streets where the factories were located the names of streets of like character. The physical conditions, the sordid wretchedness of factory and workshop, of boarding-and lodging-house, I have not in any wise overstated.

Dorothy Richardson - The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself