The Complete Servant by Samuel Adams

The Complete Servant by Samuel Adams

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A source of social history and a guide to backstairs living in large and modest houses of the late Georgian era. It contains sections on cookery and recipes that describes work in the kitchen offices. It also contains a section on the Head Nurse that has directions on contemporary child care. It discusses 30 categories of servants' duties.

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The Complete Servant by Samuel Adams

First published 1825. A fascinating source of social history and a guide to backstairs living in both large and modest houses of the late Georgian era. Advice to employers and their servants from an ex-butler and an ex-housekeeper, dealing not only with the kitchen but also with the house, stables and garden, and with an unusual section on menservants' duties over a period when little is known about them. 30 categories of servants' duties are discussed, and also the duties of employers toward them; these last are surprisingly humane and tolerant. Introduction by Pamela Horn.
Enthralling Book Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph
Samuel and Sarah Adams were 50 years in service, starting as the lowest menials and ending as Butler and Housekeeper, respectively. Pamela Horn has written a number of books on English country life and education during the 18th and 19th-centuries, including Life and Labour in Rural England 1760-1850 (1987) and The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant .
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ISBN 13 9781870962094
ISBN 10 1870962095
Titel The Complete Servant
Autor Samuel Adams
Serie Southover Press Historic Cookery And Housekeeping
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Equinox Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2008-05-06
Seitenanzahl 192
Hinweis auf dem Einband Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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