Revival: Minds in Distress (1913)
Revival: Minds in Distress (1913)

Author: Adolphus Edward Bridger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1351338560

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

There are two points from which humanity may be viewed, the bodily and the mental. Hitherto, and for various reasons, medicine has concerned itself almost solely with the physical side of man. The result has been disappointing, for, necessary as it is to be acquainted with the bodily structure in health and in disease, the changes that occur in the latter only represent the physical results of a process, and not the means by which the damage is done. Now the duty of the physician is like that of the pilot; to bring his patient safely into port, availing himself of every agency with that one object in view. Therefore, Mind, in the fullest and widest sense, must be one of his chief studies.

Below Stairs
Below Stairs

Author: Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Priscilla Day is 12 at the beginning of the novel and living with her parents. Mr Day has lost his job and they are poor. At 14 Priscilla starts as a skivvy in the village, then a maid in the household of Mr and Mrs Masters. Mrs Masters is a friend of her mother’s but more prosperous and has a son, Harry, to whom Priscilla is attracted. Harry begins to court a local girl and Priscilla decides to move away and gets a job in London. The rest of the novel shows Priscilla’s development. She has various jobs in service and becomes a well-trained parlourmaid. She returns to the village, taking a job in a house near her parents. She meets Harry again and starts walking out with him. She is not happy in her job; the mistress of the house constantly finds fault with the servants. She is also trying to bully a young heiress who lives with her into marrying her wastrel of a son. Priscilla helps the young woman and the expected happy endings materialise.