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HORN,PAMELA: : FLUNKEYS AND SCULLIONS: Life Below Stairs in Georgian England

UK.STROUD,GLOUCESTERSHIRE.SUTTON PUBLISHING LIMITED,2004.

ISBN 0750929553.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork (painting detail of 'Stealing a Kiss',by Pierre Outin) illustrated front panel of dw/dj with black lettering; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - minor superficial,miniscule scoring and indentation without penetration or affecting the bds beneath.Top+fore-edges though ubiquitously and slightly toned are bright and clean without blemish,foxing or spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-328pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters including a conclusion,16pp contemporary b/w facsimile illustration reproductions in 1 block,between pp152/3,notes,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table with prose extract to recto,acknowledgements with blank recto and unpaginated first page. 'It is an order of our species that we can't do well without [servants]',wrote the Revd George Woodward in 1758.At that time,Georgian England had seen an explosion in the numbers of domestic servants,who were seen as a visible symbol of their employer's wealth and status.Yet although visible they were still voiceless.Who were the servants who kept the great houses and the middle class homes of Georgian England running? What kinds of work did they do? How were they treated? What did they think of their masters and mistresses upstairs? 'Flunkeys and Scullions' is brimming with colourful accounts of the personal lives of serving men and women.Pamela Horn reveals the unusual tasks set by some employers - in the Middleton household servants were ordered by their master to spy on his wife,and in the court case of the Dormers of Oxfordshire servants were called as witnesses.Tragic tales,such as the fate of Elizabeth Rainbow,an apprentice who was murdered by her employer when she revealed she was pregnant by him,show that abuse of servants by their employers was not uncommon.It was perhaps this which made some serving men and women so desirous of escaping the ystem.Two of the most remarkable were freed slave Ignatius Sancho,who used domestic service to build up enough capital to become a shopkeeper with servants of his own,and enterprising lady's maid Nanny Hawkins,who became the mistress and then the wife of her employer - the owner of the Calke estate in Derbyshire. Pamela Horn has mined the archives of stately homes,Poor Law institutions,churches,charities, courts,contemporary newspapers and journals,as well as diaries,to bring to life the personal experiences of these 'invisible' people.Her ground-breaking account gives,for the first time,a voice to the people who lived behind the scenes of Georgian society. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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