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The management of servants : a practical guide to the routine of domestic service : containing the method of waiting on table and other duties applicable to every household / by the author of "Manners and rules of good society."
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1890 managem
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Household employees.
- Home economics.
- Etiquette.
- Physical Description:
- x, 194 p. ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Other Title:
- Servants' practical guide
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Frederick Warne and Co., 1890.
- Contents:
- Introductory remarks
- Households: their various scales
- Engaging and dismssing servants
- A tariff of servants' wages
- Servants' meals
- Opening the, and announcing visitors
- Waiting at breakfast and the arrangement of the breakfast-table
- Waiting at luncheon and the arrangement of the luncheon-table
- The manner of preparing afternoon tea
- Waiting at dinner and the arrangement of the dinner-table
- Waiting at ball-suppers, and the arrangement of the supper-tables
- The duties of a house-steward; the duties of a groom of the chambers; the duties of a valet
- The butler's duties
- Footmen's duties
- The duties of a single-handed man-servant and page-boy
- The duty of coachmen and grooms
- The housekeeper's duties
- The duties of a cook
- The duties of kitchen-maids, scullery maids, and stillroom maids
- Housemaids' duties
- The duties of a parlourmaid
- The duties of a lady's maid
- The duties of a head-nurse, and the duties of a nursery-maid
- The duties of dairy-maids and laundry-maids
- The duties of gardeners and gamekeepers.
- Notes:
- On cover: The management of servants, by a Member of the aristocracy.
- First ed. published as: Servants' practical guide.
- "Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., Printers, Whitefriars."--colophon.
- Includes publisher's catalogue in back: 4 p.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.
- OCLC:
- 15027284
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