The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant

Synopsis of The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant

«The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant» is the social history essay by Pamela Horn, published by A. Sutton in hardcover (221 pages, in English).

In Victorian England, servants formed the largest labour group in the country. Pamela Horn documents their recruitment, training, duties and working conditions using contemporary sources, service books and personal memoirs, revealing a vanished social system with very different fates.

1989 edition, reprint of the study originally published in 1975; includes bibliography and index.

For readers of social history and the Victorian period interested in domestic life and the working classes.