10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERVANTLESS»
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Historicizing Lifestyle: Mediating Taste, Consumption and ...
Likewise, while one article on 'The Ideal Home' assumes that in a substantial
house 'the kitchen will be the servants' living-room' (Welch, 1922/1992: 20),
another offers a more efficient model for 'The Servantless House' which can '
solve the ...
Mr David Bell, Joanne Hollows, 2012
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Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth-Century ...
As Clementina Black acidly noted in 1918, men might lightly propose doing
without servants, because they 'know nothing of the processes by which their
households are kept going'.7 VARIETIES OF SERVANTLESS HOMES To be
servantless ...
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Gentry and Common Folk: Political Culture on a Virginia ...
Thus wagons and carts appear in 57.8 percent of multiple-servant inventories
and 39.6 percent of one-servant inventories, but only 16.3 percent of servantless
inventories.37 In contrast, an analysis of Hardy County, a cattle-raising area in ...
5
New Way of Housekeeping
As to group (b), which includes the greater proportion of married women below
forty-five, it is evident that a domestic system resting solely upon the shoulders of
a servantless wife must suffer interruption for a period of weeks, every time she ...
6
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
Helpful books appeared around this time with titles like First Aid to the
Servantless (1913), and The Servantless House (1920), invariably encouraging
the purchase of electrical appliances and the efficient reorganisation of the
household.
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The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House
Inthe 1920s the push for middleclass householders in servantless houses
wastowards 'convenience'and 'laboursaving', and the struggle was to
negotiatebetween the valuesand associations of a previous time andthe
necessities of modern, ...
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Servants, Space, and the Face of Class in Victorian Fiction
The ad, "Happy though Servantless," reads: After the War domestic labour will
probably be both scarce and dear, and the servantless home will, through force
of circumstances, tend to become the rule rather than the exception. If, however,
the ...
Erin Dee Chamberlain, 2007
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the fire, in order to r Boston in time for my 0 o'clock; and so exceptional IS the
place that, when I get home at night, I descend from my my gaze out over the ...
Electric appliances were being heralded as introducing a new age and some
people even hinted at an eventual "servantless kitchen." "Perfectly controllable
cooking," easy laundry, and effortless cleaning were all in the near future, one
home ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERVANTLESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
servantless is used in the context of the following news items.
Seven kitchen ages
Their belief in a servantless society, empowering women and a growing scientific rationalism made the building of a well-designed kitchen not just a rational but ... «Financial Times, May 15»
Three New Books On Luxurious Cold-Weather Escapes
Their “unpretentious” approach to holidaying — relaxing, servantless, on the beach with their children, along with their pals Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, ... «New York Times, Nov 14»
Who Made That Charcoal Briquette?
As an article in Reader's Digest observed, “Cooking with charcoal . . . is now as deeply ingrained in American life as the long weekend and the servantless ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
In love with the lodger
Servantless, Mrs Wray keeps up appearances while her daughter Frances confronts the reality of hands-and-knees housework. Reluctantly, they advertise for ... «Spectator.co.uk, Aug 14»
The Tudor Delight
... these houses were built by Rowlett and the Davises, as period descriptions said, for "economy, efficiency and permanency, and a servantless lifestyle.". «Richmond magazine, Dec 13»
Cookbook colossi
Without her oeuvre from 1950-60 one could argue there would never have been the servantless, informal dinner party as we know it today. She took the pot out ... «Financial Times, Jun 13»
The Great Depression and the Rise of the Refrigerator
While the upper class rarely interacted with such appliances, given the fact that they had servants, the middle class woman of the 1930s lived in a "servantless ... «Pacific Standard, Oct 12»
Matisyahu, Tallest Man on Earth to play Milwaukee
Natasha Leggero, "Servantless Household Tour" (stand-up comedy): 8 p.m. Sept. 21, Turner Hall Ballroom, 1032 N. 4th St. $20 cabaret seating, on sale noon ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 12»
To hell with the Blitz - we're off to the Ritz!: WEST END FRONT: THE …
Many became a refuge for those of the rich who shut up their large houses in Mayfair or Belgravia, now largely servantless, to seek the greater safety and ... «Daily Mail, Nov 11»
Is Laura Calder the next Julia Child? 'French Food at Home' host is …
But like Child, who wrote her iconic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking for the "servantless American cook," Calder is hoping to take the pressure out ... «New York Daily News, Oct 11»
