{"id":4730,"date":"2026-04-28T16:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austenblog.com\/2015\/05\/21\/life-below-stairs-the-duties-of-a-georgian-housemaid\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:42:22","slug":"life-below-stairs-the-duties-of-a-georgian-housemaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/life-below-stairs-the-duties-of-a-georgian-housemaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Life below stairs \u2013 the duties of a Georgian housemaid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on All Things Georgian<\/a>:
‘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…\"\"<\/p>

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Originally posted on All Things Georgian<\/a>:
‘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…\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t