Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant

Name: Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant
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ISBN: 9780750937177

ISBN-10: 0750937173

ISBN-13: 9780750937177

Edition: 2003

Authors: Pamela Horn

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Servants formed the largest occupational group in the country at the end of the nineteenth century. Pamela Horn draws upon a wealth of contemporary sources and servant books as well as personal reminiscences by servants and employers.

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: History Press Limited, The
Publication date: 2/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



The origins of domestic service


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


The winds of change, 1900-14


The final phase


Domestic servant wage rates


The duties of servants


Ladies' maids


Reminiscences of domestic servants between the wars


The servants' hall


The employer's point of view


Servant numbers in Victorian England and Wales