Domestic service

Servants: English domestics in the eighteenth century

by Hill, Bridget

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The importance of domestic service in the eighteenth century has long been recognised by historians but apart from a number of recent controversial articles, this is the first detailed study of the subject since J. Jean Hecht's book of 1956. Bridget Hill's essays question the st…

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