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The Book of Household Management

by Mrs. Isabella Beeton, 1861

Comprising Information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchen-maid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under house-maids, lady's-maid, maid-of-all-work, laundry-maid, nurse and nurse-maid, monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. also, sanitary, medical, & legal memoranda; with a history of the origin, properties, and uses of all things connected with home life and comfort.

Nothing lovelier can be found
In Woman, than to study household good. - Milton

"Mrs Beeton" is famous as a book of recipies, but also includes a substantional amount of advice about servants and the structure of Victorian households. As a source of ideas for Household D/s, these pages reproduce the sections about domestic servants, and a distillation of the most quotable passages on one page. (The full text, including the cooking and cleaning recipies, is available in plain text from Gutenberg and formatted web pages at MrsBeeton.com.)

Contents

• Quotable passages
• The Mistress
  • Acquaintances, guests and fashion
  • Servants
  • Visiting and dining
• The Housekeeper
• Regarding domestic servants
• Male servants
  • Duties of the butler
  • Duties of the footman
    • Boot cleaning
  • Duties of the coachman, groom and stable-boy
  • Duties of the valet
• Female servants
  • Duties of the cook
  • Duties of the scullery-maid
  • Duties of the lady's-maidUpper and under housemaids
  • Duties of the maid-of-all-work
  • Duties of the laundry-maid
  • Duties of the sick-nurse