10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOMESTIC SERVANT»
Discover the use of
domestic servant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
domestic servant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Victorian
Domestic Servant
This book covers the whole range of domestic service in the nineteenth century, describing the work and conditions of servants and giving an insight into the strict social hierarchy, which was as strong 'below stairs' as above.
2
Leisure moments: or, A novel work, by a
domestic servant
Leisure moments. INTRODUCTION Having for some time contemplated getting a
little "Work together, to present to a class of society commonly called "Domestic
Servants" — a class with whom I have for nearly a quarter of a century associated
...
3
The Stag Diary: Passage to Colonial Adelaide 1850 : ...
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Doug Limbrick, Francis C. Taylor, 2013
4
The Processes of Urbanism: A Multidisciplinary Approach
It is usual for an employer to impose implicit trust in a domestic servant,
particularly if her first impressions of the servant are favorable and if the latter's
initial performance proves satisfactory. Such trust includes leaving the house
completely to ...
Joyce Aschenbrenner, Lloyd R. Collins, 1978
5
The Female
Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature'
the dual connotations of the latter word meaning either the lady of the house or a
domestic servant). The figure of the domestic servant-cum-writer became
something of a cliché in the 1860s, and governesses were considered to be
especially ...
6
Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court, &c. and ...
was a domestic servant of the late Thomas Fairrie at the time of his death:
Therefore decerns against the defenders as libelled: Finds the pursuer entitled to
expenses,” &c. * The trustees advocated, and argued that the proof failed to shew
that ...
Scotland. Court of Session, 1864
7
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
A number of employers are moving away from the old idea of the bed space
which was meant to provide only bed space for the employee without
consideration of his family, and a number of employers today, including the
domestic servant ...
8
A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the Present
The typical live-in domestic servant was a young woman of rural origin, aged
between mid-teens and mid-twenties. The term 'servant' was synonymous with '
lad' or 'maid', and therefore, virtually by definition, they were young, unmarried
and ...
9
A Bibliography of British Industrial Relations
Autobiography of a domestic servant. The author was butler to the Principal,
Brasenose College, Oxford. 9991 Stuart, Dorothy Margaret. The English abigail.
London: Macmillan, 1946. viii, 220p. 9992 Hecht, Joseph Jean. The domestic
servant ...
George Sayers Bain, G. B. Woolven, 1979
10
The
Domestic Space Reader
at is why the twentieth-century link between housewifery and kitchen had
everything to do with the work and domain of the nineteenth-century domestic
servant [...] e kitchen was not only the workshop of domestic servants but also
their living ...
Kathy Mezei, Chiara Briganti, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOMESTIC SERVANT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
domestic servant is used in the context of the following news items.
Children, crime and charity
Judging by the facts that reports have been made to it on child abuse, and the concerned victim, a domestic servant, subsequently rescued, ... «The News International, Jul 15»
The moment a mother reunites with her children – after four years …
But over the following months, she was forced to work as a domestic servant, banned from even leaving the house. “I was scared and did as ... «Red Cross Blogs, Jul 15»
HC: Divide actor Sumati Gupte's estate equally
The will also included a provision for her domestic servant and directed her daughters to make the appropriate provision for her. Meera filed ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
Iraq's deepening divides
... how she was captured by IS and forced to work as a domestic servant in Mosul for a militant for several months, before being sold for ransom. «IRINnews.org, Jul 15»
Louis Armstrong, jazz legend, dies in 1971
Armstrong first picked up a horn in New Orleans, where he was born in 1900 to a laborer and his wife, a former domestic servant. The town's ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
A bed of roses in Blackrock for €1.875m
... in Blackrock was home to a master bedstead-maker named John Hilton, his wife, their two children and a 19-year-old domestic servant. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
Daily Diary, July 4, 1915
The slates on the roof were dislodged and a domestic servant, named Miss Gertrude May Rouse, aged 22, a native of Erdington near Chipping ... «Worcester News, Jul 15»
Obama Channels Reverend Wright
His father, my grandfather was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. Through hard work ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
Chicken in burnt coconut–startling but tender
The days of a household either having one member, usually the mother, knowing how to cook or outsourcing it to a domestic servant, are ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
Summer Reading: News-Press staff shares books we love
... perspective of the last survivor of a cult as he goes from a domestic servant to a beefed-up, collagen- and steroid-packed religious celebrity. «The News-Press, Jun 15»
