They’re Everywhere!
In fiction about the 19th century, you see them everywhere: they’re carrying tea trays, opening doors, serving dinner, or wandering about decoratively at balls wearing
Tag: servants
Maid For You
Ah, having a lady’s maid. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Someone to pamper you and pick up your discarded silk shawls and rub your temples with
The Butler Did It
This is another in our occasional series on servants young ladies of the upper classes would have encountered in the 19th century. We have already
Mom, Sort of
If you were a member of the aristocratic or gentry classes in the 19th century, it was almost a given you’d have two (or more)