Diantha Bell has a dream: to free women from the endless cycle of unpaid housework by turning it into a respected, profitable business. But her fiancé Ross Warden dreams of a traditional home, and her own father scoffs at female ambition. Leaving her small town for San Francisco, Diantha builds a cooperative cleaning company, hires other women, and proves that domestic labor can be dignified, organized, and lucrative. When she returns home, scandal and resistance await—yet so does a chance to transform her community’s entire way of life. This faithful modern retelling strips away the original’s archaic language while preserving Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s radical vision of female entrepreneurship and social change. Part of Timeless Classics.