The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman, 1776-1800
Title | The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman, 1776-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Whatman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Home economics |
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A look at 18th-century housekeeping practices, including advice that is as invaluable today as it was 225 years ago. Written in 1776 during the first year of her marriage to James Whatman, the noted English papermaker. As Mistress of Turkey Court, Kent, Susanna Whatman wrote down detailed instructions for her servants, adding to them whenever necessary throughout the following 24 years. An engrossing picture of life 'below stairs' in one of the great 18th-century English houses.
The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman
Title | The Housekeeping Book of Susanna Whatman PDF eBook |
Author | Susanna Whatman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Home economics |
ISBN | 9780707803319 |
Manual for Museums
Title | Manual for Museums PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph H. Lewis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Museum techniques |
ISBN |
Home Economics and Domestic Subjects Review
Title | Home Economics and Domestic Subjects Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Home economics |
ISBN |
Master and Servant
Title | Master and Servant PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Steedman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 2007-07-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1139464973 |
Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteenth century. This case-study of people behaving in ways quite contrary to the standard historical account sheds new light on the much wider historical questions of Anglicanism as social thought, the economic history of the industrial revolution, domestic service, the poor law, literacy, education, and the very making of the English working class. It offers a unique meditation on the relationship between history and literature and will be of interest to scholars and students of industrial England, social and cultural history and English literature.
Useful Toil
Title | Useful Toil PDF eBook |
Author | Proffessor John Burnett |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136151001 |
Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs. Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.
The British National Bibliography
Title | The British National Bibliography PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur James Wells |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1160 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Bibliography, National |
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