I'll be particularly interested to read about the day and night nurseries and where they tended to be located, and the 'backstairs' workings at the time. Obviously there are less records of servants lives ( though I do have a few choice bits already ) than of the Masters and Mistresses, and hopefully this book will help me piece a few bits together. There's a great footnote (not related to my research ) about the pledge that midwives needed to take to be accepted; to foreswear child-switching, abortion, scorcery and overcharging
A lovely chunky book on the life of a Victorian terraced house. Not directly related to any of the occupants of the Square ( that I know of), but it is a really good insight into the daily routines and 'rules' of the sort of houses I'm writing about. Only just started but will be really interesting to see what matches up with information I have on the layouts, occupancy and uses of the houses.
I'll be particularly interested to read about the day and night nurseries and where they tended to be located, and the 'backstairs' workings at the time. Obviously there are less records of servants lives ( though I do have a few choice bits already ) than of the Masters and Mistresses, and hopefully this book will help me piece a few bits together. There's a great footnote (not related to my research ) about the pledge that midwives needed to take to be accepted; to foreswear child-switching, abortion, scorcery and overcharging
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