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Clara Kelley is not the experienced Irish maid hired to work in one of Pittsburgh’s grandest households. She’s a poor farmer’s daughter with nothing in her pockets. But the other woman with the same name has vanished, so Clara is pretending to be her ― if she can keep up the ruse. Carnegie’s Maid tells the story of a brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie toward philanthropy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thorndike Press; Large type / Large print edition (Feb. 7 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Library Binding ‏ : ‎ 454 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1432847031
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1432847036
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 499 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm

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Marie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten years' experience as a litigator at two of the country's premier law firms, who found her calling unearthing the hidden historical stories of women. Her mission is to excavate from the past the most important, complex and fascinating women of history and bring them into the light of present-day where we can finally perceive the breadth of their contributions as well as the insights they bring to modern day issues. She embarked on a new, thematically connected series of historical novels with THE OTHER EINSTEIN, which tells the tale of Albert Einstein's first wife, a physicist herself, and the role she might have played in his theories. The next novel in this series is the USA Today bestselling CARNEGIE'S MAID -- which released in January of 2018 -- and the book that followed is the New York Times bestseller and Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM, the story of the brilliant inventor Hedy Lamarr, which published in January of 2019. In January of 2020, LADY CLEMENTINE, the story of the incredible Clementine Churchill, was released, and became an international bestseller. Her next novel, the Instant NYTimes and USAToday bestselling THE MYSTERY OF MRS. CHRISTIE, was published on December 29, 2020, and her first co-written book, THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN, with the talented Victoria Christopher Murray, will be released on June 29, 2021. Writing as Heather Terrell, Marie also published the historical novels The Chrysalis, The Map Thief, and Brigid of Kildare.

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Well researched historical fiction

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 4, 2021

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Although the character is purely fictional, the author's mastery of the period lends credence to something that one would hope would happen in real life at the time.

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Wonderful read

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The book was informative, interesting and a page turner.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 13, 2018

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I really enjoyed this book. It is written so well I felt I was right there with the characters in the book.

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Kathryn Brookfield

Romdrama with a twist

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 8, 2018

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Great historical fiction opening one’s eyes to the plight of Irish immigrants to late nineteenth century eastern America. Fast read.

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Kelly Simi

Fabulous Read 📚

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 29, 2023

Historical and romantic My favorite type of read It will be yours too
Carnegie Family possibly the beginning of how their legacy came about

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 25, 2023

You will enjoy the history of the Irish immigrants and Scottish immigrants in the new world. The tough times they left back home and the trying times surviving when they arrived.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 16, 2018

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fantastic .. interesting

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 20, 2018

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What a disappointment. Was absolutely thrilled with the Large Type. Wonderful for these old eyes. Sadly the book reads like a trumped up Harlequin romance. A silly waste of time & money.

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Morag Prees

Good story!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 6, 2020

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Really enjoyed this book!
Very lifelike and believable.
I was sorry to come to the end of it.

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Angart

An Interesting Read

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This is another classic tale of a poor servant girl catching the eye of her rich master. However although our heroine, Clara, the ladies maid is fictional, her rich employer is not. He is Andrew Carnegie. So the author is constrained by history and one knows right from the start that the romance, such as it is, will never go anywhere and that is one of the novels flaws. Although the book is very well written and researched, the plot lacks drama. The romance is very chaste and is not imbued with much emotion and the premise that this woman might have influenced Carnegie’s business and philanthropic causes, really seems a bit far fetched. I also would have liked a more imaginative ending. As it is the book ends on a rather flat note. However Andrew Carnegie certainly was a vary interesting person and so I found this book most informative.

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A Satisfying Book

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Perhaps a very Pittsburgh book, too -- right down to foregoing love in favor of duty, and love transmuting into ideals.

When I was a child in Pittsburgh, the main Carnegie Library was a temple to learning -- no expense spared in its majestic construction and every book cherished, no matter how obscure. I used to make the series of trolley journeys from my suburban home to the university district to visit it every other weekend, just because it amazed me that I was welcome in such a palatial and scholarly environment -- everyone was. It was its sheer magnificence that began my fasciation with Andrew Carnegie. I also adored Pittsburgh -- a very complex place, for those of you who don't know it.

So of course I wanted to read this book, and that side of me was gratified to come away with a better understanding of the young Carnegie and Pittsburgh in the time of the Civil War -- with an intriguing description of New York in the same time period thrown in.

This book is not a literary masterpiece, but it is competently written from the POV of a ladies' maid -- a narrow view of the world, but one which serves the purposes of the book very nicely. The characters took on reality for me, and the small domestic view of some of the great robber-baron moves of the day, and of the building of the country's infrastructure, was engrossing. So was the description of the living conditions of laboring-class immigrants and Irish tenant farmers during the time of the great potato famine, which came to vivid life. And the story arc was quite satisfying -- and the farthest thing imaginable from predictable. I'll be re-reading this book in future.

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Dieter Waeltermann

Awkward dialogue, flowery language, ok story line

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When I first started to read Carnegie's Maid, I was incredibly excited given that it takes place in my home town -- Pittsburgh. Once you get past about 30 pages you realize that the writing style is pretty annoying. Big flowery descriptions, awkward dialogue, and over-the-top pretentious word usage. I understand that the writer was going for period-based language, but it was so over the top it distracted from the story line. She used the word "sumptuous" four or five times. Now that I am 80% done with the book, my original excitement has been replaced with apathy. I was going to read more of this writer's books - but I think this will be the last one. I'm getting eye strain from rolling my eyes so much.

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Gisela Hausmann

A prefect novel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2018

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“Carnegie's Maid: A Novel” is easily one of the best book’s I have read in a long time. Granted, I have been fascinated with Andrew Carnegie’s life story for a while, the more I was delighted with how author Marie Benedict tied together historical facts of Andrew Carnegie’s life with the story of the fictitious maid Clara Kelley who becomes his mother’s maid.

Clara has been sent to the United States by her father; she is supposed to earn money and send it back to “the old home” in Ireland. In short, she is serving as a (financial) back-up helping her family to survive. Clara takes her mission very seriously. Even though she doesn’t really have any job skills that qualify her for a career in which she can make enough money, she has a major advantage – she is determined, clever, and educated.

Arriving on the ocean liner “Envoy” in Philadelphia she hops on the chance to get to Pittsburgh where her distant relatives live. As luck has it, another Clara Kelley (a popular name) was also on the same liner to be hired as a maid by the Carnegie family. Realizing that the “other Clara Kelley” was probably the young woman who died on the ship, Clara takes her place, gets on the carriage, and eight days later she has the job. The bigger issue is how she is going to keep the job. Mrs. Carnegie is demanding, difficult, and in part quite insecure. Taking one wrong step could mean the end of Clara’s career.

Hence, when Clara notices that Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Carnegie’s older son and successful entrepreneur is attracted to her, she tries to avoid beginning any kind of relationship. Then again, Clara is also lonely. With the exception of Mr. Ford, the black cook, none of the other servants wants to be friends with her or even talk to her. On the other hand, Andrew Carnegie challenges her mind, teaches her business tricks, and – courts her, with passion and intellect.

Author Marie Benedict creates a plausible scenario how Clara and Andrew learn from each other, stimulate each other, and bring out the best in each other. To not falsify history or lead on the reader, she starts with a prologue that makes it clear that Clara and Andrew won’t get together for good. I still rooted for them anyway. I was also impressed with the vast amount of historic details, flawlessly added to this story; the reader gets a complete picture of the era, the historic details of Pittsburg and New York at the time, and – Andrew Carnegie, which is what I was looking for.

It there anything to be learned from this novel?
(Mr. Ford) “... We are all pretending in this life. One way or another...”

It’s upon us whether we stay “our course” and whether we allow others to help us do that.

A perfect novel,
5 stars, Gisela Hausmann, author & blogger

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