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| Loo in the kitchin |
Once upon a time, labor was cheap. Mr. Darcy’s ten thousand pounds a year would have made for a large staff at Pemberley.
The following budgets, from Samuel & Sarah Adams's, The Complete Servant, show that even ladies and gentlemen of modest means could afford at least one servant. Though the figures are for 1825, we can get a general idea of what, say, Mr. Bennett’s annual income might have been, based on the size of his household staff.
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Image, Loo in the kitchin [sic] or, High life belowstairs, 1799 courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
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4 comments:
So interesting! I'm currently working on a story set right around this time period, and it's awesome to know what people could afford depending on their income (and also, what sort of staff would be around for someone incredibly rich.)
xo
Kristina
www.eccentricowl.com
So interesting! I'm currently working on a story set right around this time period, and it's awesome to know what people could afford depending on their income (and also, what sort of staff would be around for someone incredibly rich.)
xo
Kristina
www.eccentricowl.com
(Oops. Sorry for the double comment, my internet froze and I thought I'd lost it the first time.)
The Games-Keeper gets a house and a firing... might that mean use of the big oven to do his families weekly baking?
Gail
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