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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge.
Date: [1824]- Books
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The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge.
Date: [1825?]- Pictures
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A physician informing a young woman and her mother that she is pregnant, a servant is listening at the door. Engraving by T. Holloway.
Reference: 21798i- Books
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Jamaica ss. An act to prevent the abuses committed by entertaining, concealing, or carrying off, any of His Majesty's soldiers, any white men or women servants, or slaves belonging to any of the inhabitants of this island without tickets, and for the better regulating servants, and deciding differences between masters and servants.
Jamaica.Date: 1736]- Books
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Advice from farmer Trueman to his daughter Mary, upon her going to service, in a series of discourses, designed to promote the welfare and true interest of servants. With reflections Of no less Importance to Masters and Mistresses. Abridged by consent of the author, from the works of Jonas Hanway, Esq.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: Printed in the Year 1792- Books
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Advice from farmer Trueman, to his daughter Mary, upon her going to service. In a series of discourses, designed to promote the welfare and true interest of servants, ...
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: 1792- Archives and manuscripts
Ministry of Social Security, Selective Employment Tax: Refunds to Employers of domestic or nursing help in private households
Date: c.1966Reference: SA/MWF/N.14/8Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Pictures
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A woman wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages after breast feeding it, several other women and a small child sit with her. Engraving by A. Bosse.
Reference: 17560i- Pictures
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Judith and her maid put the head of Holofernes into a bag. Engraving by A. Smith.
Reference: 20914i- Pictures
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A maid shows an old man his smallpocked face in a hand mirror. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.
Date: 1823Reference: 16311iPart of: Album comique- Pictures
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Three vignettes of people promoting the use of 'Pears soap'. Photomechanical reproduction after D.E. Wyund.
Wyund, D. E.Date: 1890Reference: 16196i- Pictures
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Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching (?) after H. Goltzius.
Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617.Reference: 20970i- Pictures
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Judith with Holofernes' head; her maid behind her. Line engraving after C. Allori.
Allori, Cristofano, 1577-1621.Reference: 20913i- Pictures
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Judith and her maid hide Holofernes' head. Woodcut.
Reference: 20971i- Books
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A present for a servant-maid: or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem. Under the following heads. Observance. Avoiding sloth. Sluttishness. Staying on Errands. Telling Family Affairs. Secrets among Fellow-Servants. Entring into their Quarrels. Tale-Bearing. Being an Eye-Servant. Carelessness of Children. Of Fire, Candle, Thieves. New Acquaintance. Fortune-Tellers. Giving saucy Answers. Liquorishness. Apeing the Fashion. Dishonesty. The Market Penny. Delaying to give Change. Giving away Victuals. Bringing in Chair-Women, Wasting Victuals Quarrels with Fellow-Servants. Behaviour to the Sick. Hearing Things against a Master or Mistress. Being too free with Men Servants. Conduct toward Apprentices. Mispending Time. Publick Shews. Vails. Giving Advice too freely. Chastity. Temptations from the Master. If a single Man. If a married Man. If from the Master's Son. If from Gentle men Lodgers. To which are Added, Directions for going to Market, Also. For Dressing any Common Dish, whether Flesh, Fish, or Fowl. With some Rules for Washing, &c. The Whole calculated for making both the Mistress and the Maid happy.
Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.Date: [1743]- Pictures
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A mother wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages, with a child, the baby's nurse, and two other servants. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1633.
Date: [1633]Reference: 17545iPart of: Le mariage à la ville- Pictures
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The birth of the Virgin Mary. Engraving by R. Van Audenaerd after A. Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Date: 1728Reference: 21515i- Pictures
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A midwife wrapping the Virgin Mary in swaddling clothes after receiving her first bath; Anne is recuperating in bed. Engraving by C. Faucci, 1764, after G.B. Cipriani after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: 1764Reference: 21522i- Pictures
The newly born Virgin Mary is washed by maids; her mother lies in white on the bed. Coloured engraving by P. Bouttats.
Bouttats, Philibert, 1654 or 1655-Reference: 20987i- Books
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The history of Pamela; or, virtue rewarded. Abridged from the works of Samuel Richardson, Esq; Adorned with copper-plates.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.Date: [1779?]- Pictures
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The Virgin Mary as an infant among maids. Engraving.
Reference: 20985i- Pictures
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Abraham's servant is impressed by the beautiful Rebecca, who stands in white amid the women around the well. Engraving by P.-I. Drevet after N. Coypel.
Coypel, Noël, the elder, 1628-1707.Date: [between 1720 and 1729?]Reference: 20457i- Pictures
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A woman being shown her newborn child for the final time before she receives the last rites. Engraving by A.H. Payne after C. Piloty.
Piloty, Karl von.Reference: 17670i- Pictures
A woman giving birth in an elaborate room aided by a midwife and a nun and surrounded by her husband and family. Engraving by A. Bosse.
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 16882iPart of: Le mariage à la ville- Pictures
Miss Baily reviving from her attempted suicide while her manservant cudgels the foppish object of her affections. Coloured reproduction of an etching by I. Cruikshank, 1807.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Reference: 11830i