Treasure Hunt, the blog that features the National Trust Collections, has written a post about the new book by Sian Evans, Life Below Stairs...

At the top of the servant hierarchy stood the butler and the housekeeper, who ruled their domains belowstairs. Jane Austen gave Mr. Darcy...

On December 1, 1798, Jane Austen wrote her sister Cassandra: We are very much disposed to like our new maid; she knows nothing of a dairy, t...

While the British people during Jane Austen's time adhered to a strict class system, every once in a rare blue moon and much like a fant...

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

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

The full title of this book is: The Book of Household Management: Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-maid,...