I also finished Lucy Lethbridge’s Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times, which is fine, but not as detailed as I’d hoped about the actual work that servants did.
If you want details about the actual work, then any of Pamela Horn's books on the subject will do you! I think the main 19th C one is The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant, but there's one on the 18th/19th C era, Flunkeys and Scullions and I know she's done a 20th C one as well.
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Date: 2025-02-20 08:21 pm (UTC)If you want details about the actual work, then any of Pamela Horn's books on the subject will do you! I think the main 19th C one is The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant, but there's one on the 18th/19th C era, Flunkeys and Scullions and I know she's done a 20th C one as well.