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Author Sambrook, Pamela.

Title Keeping Their Place : Domestic Service in the Country House 1700-1920 / Pamela Sambrook.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : The History Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
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Summary In 1851 there were over a million servants in Britain. This book reveals first-hand tales of put-upon servants, who often had to rise hours before dawn to lay fires, heat water and prepare meals for their employers, and then work into the small hours. Yet there are also heartwarming stories of personal devotion, and reward, and of how the servants enjoyed themselves in their time off. There are moments of great poignancy as well as hilarity: a steward's dawning realisation that the housekeeper he befriended is a thief; a young footman chasing a melon as it rolls through a castle's corridors into the moat; the smart manservant weeping at the station as he bids farewell to his mother. This was an era when footmen were paid extra for being six foot or over, and female servants had to wear black bonnets to church.
System Details System requirements: Adobe Digital editions.
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Subject HISTORY / World.
Household employees -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Household employees -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Household employees -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sambrook, Pamela. Keeping their place. Stroud : Sutton Pub., 2005. 9780750935593 (cased) (OCoLC)ocm59353558
Standard No. 9780752494685
ISBN 9780752494685 (e-pub)
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