The Book of Household Management, Reading 1
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The Rules of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beaton
Wages for domestics in the Victorian era ranged from 1,000 pounds a year to 300. The number of servants would become smaller in proportion to the lesser size of the establishment. We still have 23 pages left in this chapter with rules for the mistress and 2,000 pages after that of everything she should be doing with her time.
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