List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction: On service and silences -- Wool, worsted and the working class: myths of origin -- Lives and writing -- Labour -- Working for a living -- Teaching -- Relations -- The gods -- Love -- Nelly's version -- Conclusion: Phoebe in Arcadia -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
A fascinating account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England.
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