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Flunkeys and Scullions: Life Below Stairs in Georgian England

The History Press Ltd (21 April 2004)

Klappentext: "Who were the servants who kept the great houses and the middle class homes of Georgian England running? What kinds of work did they do? How were they treated? What did they think of their masters and mistresses upstairs? Pamela Horn has mined the archives of stately homes, Poor Law institutions, churches, charities, courts, contemporary newspapers and journals, as well as diaries and letters of the period to present a richly detailed, entertaining and often moving account of these essential, if usually invisible people. She brings to life the personal lives of these serving men and women: the London-born servants who would briefly leave the capital before returning, usually with false character references, to obtain a post as a country-born servant, as these were thought to be more honest and harder working than those from the towns; or young women such as Mary Woodward, who left for the country in order to conceal an illegitimate child, returning under another name to service in London in a new post without disclosing the birth of the child. "

 

***hervoragend recherchiertes Buch. Auch wenn nationale Unterschiede zu berücksichtigen sind, ein absolutes "Muss" für jeden Darsteller der Dienerschaft und niederen Stände. Hier wird zum ersten mal nicht nur Elend und Abhängigkeit sondern auch Selbstbewustsein und Lebensgefühl der Dienerschaft dargestellt. Besonders interessant sind die deutlichen Unterschiede zwischen dem Gesinde im 18. Jahrhundert und ihren Kollegen 100 Jahre später, die in unseren DArstellungen kaum Berücksichtigung finden. Wie schade, dass es ein ähnliches Werk nicht für den deutschsprachigen Raum gibt.

 

 

 

Das Gesinde war immer frech und unverschämt. Gesinde und Gesinderecht vornehmlich im 18. Jahrhundert

Rainer Schröder; Keip Verlag 1992

 

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