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

ISBN: 075093560X

ISBN13: 9780750935609

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

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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 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...

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