In the Service of Empire by Dussart Fae;

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1 Leonore Davidoff, Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden, The Family Story. Blood, Contract and Intimacy 1830–1960 (London: Pearson, 1999), 158.

2 See Leonore Davidoff, The Best Circles. Society Etiquette and the Season (London: The Cresset Library, 1986), Chapter 3.

3 See Leonore Davidoff, The Best Circles, 88.

4 Leonore Davidoff, Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden, The Family Story, 161.

5 John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies, 1864 pocket edn (London: George Allen 1906).

6 Leonore Davidoff, Worlds Between (Cambridge: Polity, 1995), 24.

7 Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes. Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 2002), 231–2.

8 Vanessa Parker, The English House in the Nineteenth Century (London: Historical Association pamphlet, 1970), 20; John Tosh, A Man’s Place. Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999), 21.

9 Sarah Ellis, The Women of England (London: Fisher and Son, 1839), 331.

10 Leonore Davidoff, Worlds Between, 52.

11 Leonore Davidoff, Worlds Between, 24.

12 Lilian Westall in John Burnett (ed.), Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s–the 1920s (London: Allen Lane, 1974), 216.

13 John Burnett (ed.), Useful Toil, 14.

14 Louisa Bain’s Diary, August 14 1869, in James. S. Bain, A Bookseller Looks Back. The Story of the Bains (London: Macmillan, 1940).

15 Pamela Horn, The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant, 47–8.

16 Prochaska, F.K., ‘Female Philanthropy and Domestic Service in Victorian England’, 82.

17 Edith Hanran, interviewed by Paul and Thea Thompson for ‘Family Life and Work Experience before 1918’, Essex University Oral Archive.

18 ‘Hannah’s Places’ Box 98 (14) Munby Collection, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge University.

19 Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 2 September 1850 in J.A. Froude (ed.), Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. II (London: Longmans and Co, 1883), 129–30.

20 Letter to Mrs Russell, 20 October 1862 in J.A. Froude (ed.), Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. III, 131.

21 Pamela Horn, The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Maidservant, 44–5.

22 ‘A Servant’s Life: 1866–1872’ Box 98 (17) Munby Collection, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge University.

23 ‘A Clergyman’s Wife’, Letter, The Times, 30 November 1863, 10.

24 Lady Baker, Our Responsibilities and Difficulties as Mistresses of Young Servants (London: Hatchard, 1887), 5.

25 A Mistress and a Mother, At Home (London: Macintosh and Co, 1874), 3.

26 This was problematic for menservants’ masculinity. For menservants, their status as dependants prevented them from completely achieving adult male status as their exclusion from franchise extensions in the late nineteenth century indicated.

27 Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 17 September 1860 in J.A. Froude (ed.), Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. III (London: Longmans, 1883), 61.

28 Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 24 September 1847 in J.A. Froude (ed.), Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. II, 9.

29 Louisa Bain’s Diary, 31 January 1863, in James. S. Bain, A Bookseller Looks Back. The Story of the Bains.

30 23 Feb 1865, The Times.

31 Stephen Banks, Informal Justice in England and Wales, 1760–1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010), chapter 8.

32 Leonore Davidoff and Ruth Hawthorn, A Day in the Life of a Victorian Domestic Servant, 78

33 Frank E.

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