Staffing the Big House: Country House Domestic Service in Yorkshire, 1800-1903

This thesis examines domestic service practises among some members of the Yorkshire gentry during the nineteenth century. Historians usually consider the gentry to have shared the same social outlooks and practises as other members of the upper class in spite of significant differences in income and...

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Main Author: McDowell, Carina
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22697