...Emily Bowles Straub Kristina ., Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2009 ). Pp ix + 223 . $55 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...Chloe Wigston Smith Duke University Press 2007 “Callico Madams”: Servants, Consumption, and the Calico Crisis Chloe Wigston Smith Vassar College The “calico crisis” of 1719 – 21...

... memoirs. She explores the bond between her family and the royal family: her father was one of three servants Queen Charlotte brought with her from her home when she came to England in 1761, her husband was page to the princess royal, and she herself was playmate to princes as a child and servant...

...Emma Gleadhill “We endeavoured with some tools our servants had, to carry some pieces of it with us,” Caroline Powys wrote of her visit to Stonehenge in 1759. “Tho’ our party were chiefly female,” she remarked, “we had no more curiosity than the learn'd gentlemen of the Royal Society.” Carolyn...

... of erasing) the presence of women servants from those children’s lives. Two worlds came into confl ict in the nursery, the world of parents and educationists, and the world of servants. The former was determined by the ideology that was becoming dominant by the end of the eighteenth century, as even...

...Kathrin Levitan Carolyn Steedman. Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. 263. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-87446-5. $32.99 paper. ISBN 978-0-521-69773-6 K. D. M. Snell. Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity, and Welfare...

... Charlotte began her 1789 account book four days after she, George III, their three eldest daughters Charlotte (Princess Royal), Augusta, and Elizabeth and numerous servants left Windsor. As recounted by Frances Burney, the royal party set off in four coaches: The 1st contained Their Majesties...

... scene right out of Hogarth: “Doth not this polluted Source, instead of producing Servants for the Husband- man, or Artificer; instead of providing Recruits for the Sea or the Field, promise only to fill Alms-houses and Hospitals, and to infect the Streets...

... His published maxims include many about friendship and marriage, masters and servants, virtue and vices, for example The body does in the absence of reason what valets do in the absence of their master, and Vice does not make common people resemble great men but great men resem- ble common people...

... address’d to rather as the Son of a Man of Condition than a Servant put to learn a Trade for his future SubsistenceI have seen a prim young Fellow, with a Cue or Adonis, as they call the effemi- nate Wigs of the present Vogue, plaister’d rather than...

... in The Country Tooth-Drawer is here displaced. Nonetheless, that violence— the slave system that has per- haps brought the servant to London, the antagonism between operator and patient so plainly evident in The Country Tooth-Drawer —exceeds the capac- ity of the camouflage of politesse to conceal...

... 4.18.6 Miss Williams, Milliner 29 1.6.0 Binder upholsterer 51.19.7 Executors of Rev d Ewart 30 (Subscrip) 0.10.6 Wood & Co Coals 1.14.0 Messrs Turners Law Expenses 31 7.7.2 Servants Wages Maria Butcher 32 5.16.0 M rs Reed 33 4.15.0 10.11.0...

... will permit me to say that the servants of Heaven are the worst of masters. but in spite of all this misery, the Luxury and extravagance of Paris is rather increas’d then diminish’d; and that is the only place where effeminacy and courage are friends, and where the pursuit of pleasure do’s not divert...

... non- ­European. Chater usefully reminds us that the terms black and servant were used quite elastically in England before 1800: the former comprised anyone whose complexion was darker than the northern European norm, as well as anyone with black hair; the latter was not restricted...

... around to make practical sense of it.3 In this article, I argue that such claimed sufficiency represents a chal- lenge not just to the system of apprenticeship but more fundamentally to traditional ways of training anyone who would cook— servant, mistress, or professional. May’s claim implicates...

... of early 1782. Hence, the ambivalent reference to Fox, and O’Bryen’s insistence on Sandwich being a sincere public servant, rather than a party animal; O’Bryen was careful not to alienate any faction. Yet later that year, O’Bryen was to forge another unexpected alliance and move closer to Fox...

... tasks: “with my Husbandry, digging, planting, fencing, as usual; I gather’d and cur’d my Grapes, and did every necessary Thing as before” (229). In an elision common in ­eighteenth-century novels, the servant is not figured as either absent or pres- ent. Whether Friday is doing the work...

... the public something of the ‘saeva indignatio’ for which Swift would later choose to be remembered” (87). And when she quotes George Faulkner's comments on Swift's Directions to Servants, she distinguishes Faulkner's assertion that “the Author's Design was to expose the Villanies and Frauds of Servants...

... their Servants, which they do after this manner. If the Servant they are about to Punish be a Polish Gentleman, then they make him lie down on his Belly on a Carpet spread on the Ground, or upon a Stool, when another Gentleman Servant lays him on unmercifully upon the Back, with a Rope...

... century and a half of the East India Company’s existence, nabob was sim- ply an Anglicization of the Persian term nawab and referred to the Muslim officials of the Mughal Empire of the Indian subcontinent. By the 1760s, however, the term was applied to the servants of the East India Company who had...