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Keeping Their Place: Domestic Service in the Country House, 1700-1920 by Pamela A. Sambrook

Keeping Their Place: Domestic Service in the Country House, 1700-1920

Pamela A. Sambrook

224 pages first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
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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 ho...

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