servants' quarters- In Victorian days, they were usually referred to as below stairs; above stairs was the realm of the family.More... family- First referred to the servants of a household and then to both the servants and the descendants of a common ancestor. It comes from Latin familia...
Although they lacked authority, their opportunities to acquire information were far greater than those of the police. In much Victorian fiction the habitual presence of an alien individual or group within the home is seen as productive of great danger for the household....
This article reconstructs the experience of domestic service among the menservants and maids employed in a late seventeenth-century gentry household, that ... S Hindle - 《Historical Research》 被引量: 18发表: 2012年 Life below stairs : domestic servants in England from Victorian times Life belo...
I examine the physiognomies of servants in both fiction and advertising, as well as the definition of the household through the depictions of the bodies of both mistresses and servants. I also explore why the spaces of the London streets and middle-class homes are described as either criminal...
I examine the physiognomies of servants in both fiction and advertising, as well as the definition of the household through the depictions of the bodies of both mistresses and servants. I also explore why the spaces of the London streets and middle-class homes are described as either criminal...
In both household literature and in these mid-Victorian novels, writers employ the rhetoric of trust and confidence to convey how the work of domestic secret keeping reformulates the Victorian domestic economy and exposes the pressure that professionalizing the housekeeper's labor places on the ...
In this chapter I explore the politics of domestic reading and particularly the reading of domestics, that is of servants, in the late nineteenth-century middle-class household in Britain. The servant reading a book or magazine was a figure who produced conflicting tensions and anxieties. In ...