Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century [Hardcover]

Bridget Hill (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198206216 | ISBN-13: 978-0198206217 | Publication Date: July 18, 1996

For the first time since 1956, here is a book about eighteenth-century servants, male and female, in large and small households, in town and country, seen not only through the diaries and journals of the masters, but also through the eyes of the few domestic servants who recorded their own experiences. Offering new material on the sexuality of servants, on kin as servants and on pauper servants, Bridget Hill's fascinating and detailed essays provide a new perspective on an important facet of English domestic life in the eighteenth century.

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Review

"...a well-written, entertaining collection of essays that should appeal to specialists as well as to the non-scholarly reading public."--American Historical Review

"As a historian, Hill uses her literary sources with care....scholars from a variety of disciplines will profit from Hill's impressive attempt to tell the story of life "downstairs" and the hidden history of housework, and will certainly find Hill's work informative, if not altogether methodologically innovative."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History

About the Author

Bridget Hill is now retired - worked for Open University and was Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (July 18, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198206216
• ISBN-13: 978-0198206217
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,644,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Over $3 per page for DIGITAL???, November 18, 2009

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This review is from: Servants: English Domestics in the Eighteenth Century (Kindle Edition)

The wildly inflated price might lead you to believe this must be a large, scholarly tome, but at 288 slim pages it's nothing of the sort. The pricing is especially ridiculous for digital format.

Even as a hardback edition, $150 for a small, non-art, nondescript book is impossible to justify.