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The book was an immediate best-seller, selling 60,000 copies in its first year [5] [6] and totalling nearly two million by 1868. [5] [6] In 2010 a copy of the first edition of Household Management in "top condition" was stated to be worth more than £1,000. [7] In 1863 a revised edition was issued. [8]
In the great houses of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the housekeeper could be a woman of considerable power in the domestic arena. [citation needed] The housekeeper of times past had her room (or rooms) cleaned by junior staff, her meals prepared and laundry taken care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall.
[7]: 225 [38]: 36 In houses with large domestic staffs she was assisted by the scullery maid. Attitudes to domestic work changed in the late 19th century as other employment opportunities arose. [7]: 171 As domestic staffs shrank, the cook would often be retained at the expense of the kitchen maid. Econom: 14: 20: Knocker-up
Horn, Pamela (1990 [1975]) The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant. Stroud: Sutton Publishing ISBN 978-0-7509-0978-5; Maloney, Alison (2011) Life Below Stairs: true lives of Edwardian servants. London: Michael O'Mara ISBN 9781782434351 (pbk. 2015) Musson, Jeremy (2009) Up and Down Stairs: the history of the country house servant.
A maid, housemaid, or maidservant is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era, domestic service was the second-largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. [1] In developed Western nations, full-time maids are now typically only found in the wealthiest households.
Domestic chores for women without servants meant a great deal of washing and cleaning. Coal-dust from stoves (and factories) was the bane of the Victorian woman's housekeeping existence. Carried by wind and fog, it coated windows, clothing, furniture and rugs.
Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources. According to Guinness World Records, as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [1]
Intended as an introduction for apprentice readers to the works of the great playwright, the book became one of the best-selling titles in literature of the century, [99] being republished multiple times. [93] As early as 1830, astronomer John Herschel had already recognised the need for the genre of popular science. In a letter to philosopher ...
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