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

by Pamela A. Sambrook

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750935596
• ISBN13: 9780750935593
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"