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Life below stairs – the duties of a Georgian housemaid

Originally posted on All Things Georgian:
‘Maid of all work’ – courtesy of Lewis Walpole Library ? Many of our posts take a look at the upper echelons of Georgian society, so this time we thought it might be interesting to look at what it would have been like to have worked ‘below stairs’ as…

Originally posted 2015-05-21 17:38:19.

Sharks

It is a truth universally acknowledged that websites are like sharks: they must continually move forward or die.* So it’s time for AustenBlog to make with the fin and big teeth. Those who have read Deborah Yaffe’s delightful book Among the Janeites already know that I have been planning to shut down AustenBlog for a…

Originally posted 2015-05-15 08:00:00.