The rise and fall of the Victorian servant

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The rise and fall of the Victorian servant

Pamela Horn

A. Sutton, 1995, c1990

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Reprint. Originally published: [Dublin] : Gill and MacMillan, 1975

First published in the United Kingdom in this edition: [Gloucestershire] : A. Sutton, 1990

"First published in paperback in this edition in 1995"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-248) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Victorian England measured social acceptability in terms of the number of servants employed in a household. This frequently overlooked body of workers actually formed the largest occupational group in the country by the end of the 19th century. In this account, the author draws on contemporary sources, including "servants' books" and personal reminiscences of servants and employers, to offer a record of recruitment and training; the duties expected of servants; and the range of conditions under which they worked - some of which led to happy retirement, others to prostitution or squalid death. Complemented with photographs, "Punch" illustrations and other ephemera, the book offers a picture of this vanished social system.

目次

  • 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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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB14838246
  • ISBN
    • 0750909781
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Stroud, Gloucestershire
  • ページ数/冊数
    vi, 250 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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