In reading Undressing Mr. Darcy , this phrase leaped off my computer screen: Another of Beau Brummel’s innovations was the semi-starched cra...

In November, I wrote about the scullery maid , a young girl or woman who occupied the lowest rung of the servant class. Her domain, when she...

Why describe the lowliest of the servants in a Regency household first? Because heretofore so much has been written about the butler and the...