The rise and fall of the Victorian servant

Pamela Horn

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The origins of domestic service. Part 1 Servant heyday: the servant-keeping classes and their problems getting a place the daily round - female servants the daily round - male servants social life - below stairs employer-servant relations misdoings and misdemeanours. Part 2 Years of decline - the new century: the winds of change, 1900-14 the final phase. Appendices: domestic servant wage rates the duties of servants ladies' maids reminiscences of domestic servants between the wars the servants' hall the employers' point of view servant numbers in Victorian England and Wales.

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