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The Complete Servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants
Are you curious to discover what was expected of servants during the Georgian and Regency eras?
Especially if you love researching historical times, maybe if you are a writer and wanna write historical novels, this book which was originally published in 1825, offers a wealth of social history and information on backstairs living in both large and modest Georgian houses.
An ex-butler and ex-housekeeper offer advice to employers and their servants, addressing not only kitchen issues but also house, stable, and garden duties, including an unusual section on menservants' duties during a time when little was known about them. It discusses 30 categories of servant duties as well as the duties of employers toward them.Discover how a servant's life was in the day-to-day lives of average people in previous generations.
Complete The complete Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful recipes and tables
Especially if you love researching historical times, maybe if you are a writer and wanna write historical novels, this book which was originally published in 1825, offers a wealth of social history and information on backstairs living in both large and modest Georgian houses.
An ex-butler and ex-housekeeper offer advice to employers and their servants, addressing not only kitchen issues but also house, stable, and garden duties, including an unusual section on menservants' duties during a time when little was known about them. It discusses 30 categories of servant duties as well as the duties of employers toward them.Discover how a servant's life was in the day-to-day lives of average people in previous generations.
Complete The complete Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful recipes and tables
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Published December 6, 2022
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112 books29 followersAgitations of American revolutionary leader Samuel Adams spurred Bostonians toward rebellion against British occupation and rule; he, a member of the first and second Continental congresses, signed the Declaration of Independence, and served as governor of Massachusetts from 1794 to 1797.
People came to hold this colonial political philosopher of the movement among the Founding Fathers of the United States. They count this second cousin to John Adams, later president of United States, among the architects of the principles of republicanism that shaped the culture.
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People came to hold this colonial political philosopher of the movement among the Founding Fathers of the United States. They count this second cousin to John Adams, later president of United States, among the architects of the principles of republicanism that shaped the culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...
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June 8, 2023
This is an amazing resource for anyone wanting to write about servant life in the Regency period. It goes into extreme detail on a surprising range of topics, right down to the butchering, storage, and cooking of nearly every animal people of that era/location would eat! The ebook does not have chapter breaks so navigation can be difficult. Language was preserved from the original writing, so spelling and grammar can be hard to understand until you get used to it.
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