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Servant Girl - Estrella Alfon - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Rosa was a servant girl who was doing laundry for her mistress. While fetching water, she had an accident where a dog ran between her legs and she fell, injuring her foot.
Estrella Alfon, a Filipino writer who wrote in English, authored The Servant Girl, a short tale. She was Cebu's most renowned Philippine author. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a bachelor's degree in arts and was a member of the UP Authors Club.
The girl poured the water from the can into the earthen jar, a bitter lump in her throat, and thought of what she would do to people like her mistress when she herself, God willing, would be “rich.”
Aug 16, 2022 · In a review that appeared in Pacific Affairs (Spring 1962), Hart singled out Alfon’s “Servant Girl,” who suffers the beatings of her drunken mistress in hopes her lover may return, the young man with leprosy who hacks off his infected finger, and the city girl who returns to the village that is diffused with a Rousseau-like ...
The Servant Girl is a brief story written by Estrella Alfon, a writer from the Philippines who wrote English. She was the most famous Philippine writer of Cebu. She has an arts degree and was a member of the UP Authors Club from the University of the Philippines.
Servant Girl (short story) [when?] Legacy. In an interview, Luisa Igloria said of Alfon: Estrella Alfon writes about everyday life, but she captures the details in this dazzling, intense light. She could write about the ordinary and make it extraordinary.
It is about a girl named Rosa, who works for a mistress, who has a spell of bad humour but generous at times. She had worked as a servant all her life; from places to places, usually takes her more about four months of service. But this time it was different.
