Minerva's Stepchild

Originalsprache ist Englisch.

One moment Helen was the petted eldest child of wealthy, privileged parents, disciplined and coddled by servants, dressed in silk for "best" and prim private school uniforms for "everyday." the next, she was the unpaid, half-starved housekeeper for an unemployed clerk and his harridan wife--her father and mother. Here she tells the story of her desperate girlhood during that grim period known a...