Inquiring Readers: Servants and the working class are ever present as background characters in Jane Austen’s novels. Readers in her time were well aware of their important duties in all levels of Regency households. They were essential in the running of daily life and/or an estate, and therefore were given no distinction in Austen’s novels […]
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The Unseen and Unnoticed Servants in the Background of Jane Austen’s Novels & Life
Posted in 18th c. servants, British Servants, Jane Austen's letters, Jane Austen's World, tagged Jane Austen's Novels on June 4, 2021| 12 Comments »
Downstairs in Downton Abbey: The Servants
Posted in jane austen, Movie review, PBS Movie Adaptation, Popular culture, Servants, tagged Downton Abbey, Edwardian Country House, Edwardian servants, PBS Masterpiece Classic on January 5, 2011| 17 Comments »
Inquiring readers, from now until the U.S. airing of Downton Abbey, this blog will explore the facets of living in an English country house during the Edwardian era, and drawing upon the similarity and differences between the Edwardian and Regency eras. Many of us today cannot understand why servants in country manors such as Downton […]
Regency Servants: Maid of All Work
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency style, Servants, tagged Maid of All Work, Mrs. Beeton, Regency Servants on June 14, 2009| 4 Comments »
The general servant, or maid-of-all-work, is perhaps the only one of her class deserving of commiseration: her life is a solitary one, and in, some places, her work is never done. She is also subject to rougher treatment than either the house or kitchen-maid – Mrs. Isabella Beeton Gracie, the maid of all work in […]
Hiring Servants in the Regency Era and Later
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency Period, Regency World, tagged hiring regency servants, Regency Servants, Servant registry office, Servants on May 27, 2009| 10 Comments »
Servants found jobs in the Regency Period through word of mouth, registry offices, and references.
Footmen: Male Servants in The Regency Era
Posted in jane austen, Jane Austen's World, Regency, Regency World, Servants, tagged Footmen, jane austen blogs, Jane Austen's World, Regency Era Society, Regency house, Regency Servants, Servant Livery, Working class on January 24, 2008| 5 Comments »
In romance novels footmen are depicted as tall, dark, and handsome men in fancy livery, preferably matched in height. Surprisingly, this description of these statuesque men, who were as much a status symbol as servant, is true. According to Daniel Pool in What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, footmen wore: “livery,” or household […]
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