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The Gilded Gentleman Presents: Invisible Magicians and Golden Plates

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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The Relationship Between the Housekeeper and the Valet

The valet was essentially in charge. He handled all the personal aspects of the male head of the household's life. And he probably knew things that the wife didn't even know, and wouldn't breathe a word. So as we got to the end of the nineteenth century and start into the twentieth century, these grand houses declined, and the rolls for servants changed.

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