"...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
Product Description
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 their 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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