Master and servant : love and labour in the English industrial age /

A fascinating account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England.

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Main Author: Steedman, Carolyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Series:Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 10.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • List of maps
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: On service and silences
  • Wool, worsted and the working class: myths of origin
  • Lives and writing
  • Labour
  • Working for a living
  • Teaching
  • Relations
  • The gods
  • Love
  • Nelly's version
  • Conclusion: Phoebe in Arcadia
  • Bibliography
  • Index.