Women in Service in Early Modern England
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Collier's poem
Collier’s poem
domestic labour history
early modern British society
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female servant social mobility
gendered household roles
Haywood's book
Haywood’s book
historical gender studies
servant manuals
servant manuals analysis
Shirley's book
Shirley’s book
Swift's text
Swift’s text
women's economic agency
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- ISBN 9781138358003
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the wealth of textual material about female servants, The author has chosen four representative texts for inclusion in this volume. They have been chosen to illustrate how books addressed to female servants evolved and to show that women in service and the ordering of the household were integral to the way labour and gender structured early modern socio-economic ideals. Of the four texts reproduced here, two are manuals explaining the duties of female servants, while two are critical, in some respects, of such books addressed to servants.
Jeannie Dalporto, PhD is Assistant Professor of English, Program Coordinator of English, University of Charleston.
