domestic-hand

Updated: June 6, 2025

For children of her class it was like coming of age, to become wage-earners with the accompanying independence and family respect. The laundry where she found her first job was a small affair, of the "domestic-hand laundry" type, situated in a low brick building that had once served as a gentleman's private stable on one of the cross streets near Gramercy Park.

Robert Herrick - One Woman's Life