Femina migrans

The improved transportation infrastructure supported this migration movement. [...]domestic work became the main way of integrating young rural women into urban wage- working. [...]these texts provide a wealth of information about these women's daily lives, their hopes and fears. [...]the correspondence of the German governess Jenny Schaumann, who lived in Paris between 1881 and 1888, warrants an in-depth study and can be used to follow the trajectory and relations of this young woman during and after her time in France.12 We also have letters from German-speaking young women from Luxembourg and postcards and other pieces of writing from Alsatian women in Paris.13 Most of the sources on German maids in Paris come from the Paris Protestant German Church's charities.