tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post8816164216741303308..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: Mrs. Jane Ebrell, 18th c Housemaid & Spider-brusherUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-81783626835651997442012-02-13T01:45:55.745-05:002012-02-13T01:45:55.745-05:00You got my attention here. I love reading your blo...You got my attention here. I love reading your blogs.salt lake house cleaninghttp://tophatclean.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-73499452977237687452012-01-24T06:06:27.494-05:002012-01-24T06:06:27.494-05:00must be my lucky day, I found your blog.. Love it ...must be my lucky day, I found your blog.. Love it sooooo interesting.<br /><br />yvonneLa Petite Galleryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09553902574516930172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-47144959757724400602012-01-23T14:58:17.200-05:002012-01-23T14:58:17.200-05:00Have you come across John Harris's book, No Vo...Have you come across John Harris's book, <i>No Voice From The Hall</i>, about visiting country houses (most of them empty and abandoned) in the 1950s? It has an account of a visit to Erddig (not abandoned) when Philip Yorke was still getting around on a Victorian penny-farthing bicycle. The whole book is a joy (and there's a sequel, too.)Philip Wilkinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-8713274746100667602012-01-23T10:58:22.606-05:002012-01-23T10:58:22.606-05:00Nice to see something about servants marrying and ...Nice to see something about servants marrying and how the family viewed it. You hear so often about how romances for the maids weren't tolerated and if they wanted to marry they had to leave service (I wonder if that's a Victorianism?).Isobel Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03153722955365985930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-61820334140604375922012-01-23T04:07:27.326-05:002012-01-23T04:07:27.326-05:00Yes that portrait is fascinating, isn't it (an...Yes that portrait is fascinating, isn't it (and the accompanying verse is fascinatingly bad :))? Another interesting source about this subject is the cataloue of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2003/3 entitled 'Below Stairs: 400 Years of Servants' Portrait': http://bit.ly/zJ1cJWEmile de Bruijnhttp://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com