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• The servant problem and the servant in English literature (R. G. Badger, 1928), by Mary Hallowell Perkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The laws of masters and servants considered: with observations on a bill intended to be offered to Parliament, to prevent the forging ... of certificates of servants' characters. To which is added An account of a Society formed for the encrease and encouragement of good servants. (The Author, 1790), by John Huntingford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Faithful servants: being epitaphs and obituaries recording their names and services. (Reeves and Turner, 1891), by Arthur Joseph Munby and J. W. Streeten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The servant's guide and family manual : with new and improved receipts, arranged and adapted to the duties of all classes of servants ... forming a complete system of domestic management. (J. Limbird, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A scheme for an act of Parliament for the better regulating servants, and ascertaining their wages, and lessening the future growth of the poor, and vagrants of the Kingdom. Humbly offer'd to the consideration of the Parliament of Great Britain (J. Peele, 1724), by Christopher Tancred (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic servants and the insurance acts : a guide for mistresses and servants (Issac Pitman, 1914), by J. Henry Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wages of domestic servants. Board of trade (Labour department) (Printed for H.M. Stationery Off., by Darling & Son, Ltd., 1899), by Great Britain Board of Trade (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lives of Good Servants (London and New York: G. Routledge and Co., 1857), by Anne Manning (multiple formats at Google)

• The housemaid : her duties, and how to perform them. (Houlston and Sons, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The housemaid : her duties, and how to perform them. (Houlston and Sons, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Directions to servants (London : Printed for J. Nunn, No. 48, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1798., 1798), by Jonathan Swift and James Nunn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (Greenwich, Eng., between 1000 and 1999), by Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (page images at HathiTrust)

• Domestic service (G. Bell and sons, ltd., 1916), by C. V. Butler, Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury Verney Willoughby de Broke, and Women's Industrial Council (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Domestic service (G. Bell and Sons, 1916), by C. Violet Butler, Marie Frances Lisette Hanbury Verney Willoughby de Broke, and Women's Industrial Council (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Duties of a lady's maid : with directions for conduct, and numerous receipts for the toilette. (Printed for J. Bulcock, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Esther Waters (H. S. Stone and company, 1899), by George Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• Mistress and Maid: A Household Story (Richmond: West and Johnson, 1864), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Gutenberg text)
• Aventures de Joseph Andrews et de son ami Abraham Adams : histoire anglaise. (Hiard, 1833), by Henry Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Inimitable Jeeves (London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1923), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Marion Martin, or Truth and honesty (New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1850), by Francis Vidal (page images at Florida)

• The servant problem and the servant in English literature (R. G. Badger, 1928), by Mary Hallowell Perkins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Every-body's business, is no-body's business; or Private abuses, publick grievances: exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c., with a proposal for amendment of the same; as also for clearing the streets of those vermin call'd shoe-cleaners, and substituting in their stead many thousands of industrious poor, now ready to starve. With divers other hints, of great use to the publick. Humbly submitted to the consideration of our legislature, and the careful perusal of all masters and mistresses of families. (Sold by T. Warner, A. Dodd, and E. Nutt, 1725), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Loane and starvation (E. Hodges, printer, Toy and Marble Warehouse, no. 31, Dudley S[t]reet, Seven Dials, 1850), by E. Hodges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)

• Master and servant. A complete handbook relating to the law of master and servant. (Ward, Lock & Co., 1899), by A. H. Graham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Anno regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, vicesimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminister, the first day of December, Anno Dom. 1741, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, ... And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the eighteenth day of November, 1746, ... [-Anno regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo septimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of November, Anno Dom. 1774, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third ... and from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the thirty-first day of October, 1776 ... (Printed by C. Eyre and W. Strahan, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1778), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Plain Talk and Friendly Advice to Domestics, With Counsel on Home Matters (page images at MOA)
• Millionaire Households and Their Domestic Economy; With Hints Upon Fine Living (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903), by Mary Elizabeth Carter, illust. by Margaret Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro Christianized: An Essay to Excite and Assist that Good Work, the Instruction of Negro-Servants in Christianity (1706), by Cotton Mather, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• Servingman's comfort. (by W. W., 1598), by active 1598 I. M. and Gervase Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• House and home : a complete housewife's guide (J. H. Moore & co., 1889), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917), by M. S. and An old servant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (The Macmillan company, London, Macmillan & co., ltd., 1897), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Job descriptions for domestic service and personal service occupations. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1941), by United States Employment Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (The Macmillan company;, 1901), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bealby : a holiday (New York : The Macmillan Company, 1915., 1915), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanted, a young woman to do housework : business principles applied to housework (Moffat, Yard & Co., 1915), by C. Hélène Barker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A statistical inquiry concerning domestic service. ([Boston, 1892), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain talk and friendly advice to domestics with counsel on home matters. (Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Fifteenth-century courtesy book (Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. [etc.], 1914), by Walter W. Seton, R. W. Chambers, Poor Clares, and Third Order Regular of St. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A community home assistants experiment (Smith college, 1928), by Esther H. Stocks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic workers and their employment relations : a study based on the records of the Domestic Efficiency Association of Baltimore, Maryland (Govt. Print. Off., 1924), by Mary V. Robinson, Domestic Efficiency Association of Baltimore, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household employment in Philadelphia (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1932., 1932), by Amey Brown Eaton Watson, United States Government Printing Office, and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standards of placement agencies for household employees (Govt. Print. Off., 1934), by Marie Correll and United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopaedia of etiquette : what to write, what to do, what to wear, what to say : a book of manners for everyday use. (Published for N. Doubleday by Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922), by Emily Holt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young housekeeper (House Beautiful Pub. Co., 1918), by Jane Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household engineering : scientific management in the home (American School of Home Economics, 1920), by Christine Frederick and American School of Home Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical housekeeper (Henry Bill Pub. Co., 1872), by E. F. Ellet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The servant girl question. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1881), by Harriet Elizabeth Spofford and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expert maid-servant (Harper & brothers, 1904), by Christine Terhune Herrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The expert waitress; a manual for the pantry, kitchen, and dining room (Harper & brothers, 1911), by Anne Frances Springsteed Cole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Concerns of household workers; program with household workers in the Y. W. C. A. (Womans Press, 1941), by Jean Collier Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toilers of the home; the record of a college woman's experience as a domestic servant (Doubleday, Page & company, 1903), by Lillian Pettengill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The how and why of home etiquette (Lowman & Hanford, 1934), by Josephine Perry Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to persons who are engaged in domestic service. (Leavitt & Trow, 1842), by Catharine Esther Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Footman's directory, and butler's remembrancer (Printed for the author; and sold by J. Hatchard and Son, 187 Piccadilly, 1823), by Thomas Cosnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete servant : being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants ... with useful receipts and tables (Knightand Lacey, 1825), by Samuel Adams and Sarah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simple directions for the waitress or parlor maid (Longmans, Green and co., 1917), by Caroline Reed Wadhams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kind words for the kitchen; or, Illustrations of humble life. (M.W. Dodd, 1845), by Esther Copley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katechismus der gutgeschulten Dienerschaft des Vornehmen und des bürgerlichen Hauses ... (Stahl, in the 1910s), by Irene de Nalec̆z (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the Plague of London : together with, Religious courtship (Derby & Jackson, 1857), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The footman: his duties, and how to perform them. (Houlston, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The women in the house; stories of household employment (The Womans press, 1938), by Ruth Sergel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training for household service occupations in the American home ... (New York city, 1936), by Helen Livingstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vogue's manual of smart service and table setting. (The Condé Nast publications, inc., 1930), by Vogue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service. ([Louisville, Ky.], 1936), by Kentucky United States. National youth administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Fifteenth-century courtesy book (Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1914), by Walter W. Seton, R. W. Chambers, Poor Clares, and Third Order Regular of St. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our twenty helps and why we parted (Philadelphia, 1881), by Glorvina Fort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice to a young woman at service : in a letter from a friend (Printed for the trustees of the publishing fund, 1823), by Sarah Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• The road to trained service in the household. (National board of the Young women's Christian associations, 1916), by Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board. Commission on Household Employment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain talk and friendly advice to domestics, with counsel on home matters. (Phillips, Sampson and company, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Directions to servants (London : Printed for J. Nunn, No. 48, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1798., 1798), by Jonathan Swift and James Nunn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comfort and cleanliness : the servant and mistress question (Longmans, Green and Co., 1898), by Catherine M. Buckton and Mass.) Simmons College (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Serving and waiting : modern methods of table preparation (F. A. Stokes company, 1905), by Eleanor Marchant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Religious courtship: being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only ... (Printed by Robert and Thomas Duncan, 1774), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (The Macmillan company ;, 1911), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Domestic guide (Lockwood, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The management of servants : a practical guide to the routine of domestic service (Frederick Warne and Co., 1880), by A Member of the Aristocracy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy and adapted to the use of private families (Printed by S. Hamilton for J. Murray, 1813), by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy and adapted to the use of private families (J. Murray, 1823), by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buckeye cookery : with hints on practical housekeeping. (Buckeye Pub. Co., 1885), by Estelle Woods Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Advice of Onesimus to his young friends (Pryor Publications, 2000), by Thomas Cosnett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical housekeeping : a careful compilation of tried and approved recipes. (Buckeye Pub. Co., 1883), by Estelle Woods Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious courtship being historical discourses on the necessity of marrying religious husbands and wives only, as also of husbands and wives being of the same opinions in religion with one another : with an appendix showing the necessity of taking none but religious servants and a proposal for the better managing of servants (W. Milner, 1840), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Domestic service (Macmillan, 1901), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Industrial commission on the relations and conditions of capital and labor employed in manufactures and general business ... : including testimony ... with review and digest thereof, and a special report on domestic service (Govt. Print. Off., 1901), by United States. Industrial Commission and Gail Laughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expert waitress; a manual for the pantry and dining room (Harper & brothers, 1912), by Anne Frances Springsteed Cole, C. S. D., and C. S. D. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Simple directions for the laundress (Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Caroline Reed Wadhams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simple directions for the chambermaid (Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Caroline Reed Wadhams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subcommittee hearing on H.R. 2737, to authorize the reimbursement of certain naval attaches, observers, and other officers for certain expenses incurred while on authorized missions in foreign countries ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1951), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 2 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full committee hearing on H.R. 662, H.R. 1199, H.R. 1200, H.R. 1201, H.R. 1203, H.R. 2736, H.R. 2737, H.R. 1179, H.R. 2735, H.R. 1181, H.R. 1215, H.R. 1216, S. 927, H.R. 3911 ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1951), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management. (Macmillan, 1902), by Lida Seely, James B. Herndon, and Herndon/Vehling Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les domestiques; étude de moeurs et d'histoire. (Baillière, 1875), by Edmond Des Robert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The servants practical guide. a handbook of duties and rules. (F. Warne and co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• House and home : a complete housewife's guide (P. W. Ziegler, 1889), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Household workers ([Science Research Associates, 1940), by Jean Collier Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Women private household workers : a statistical and legislative profile (Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau, 1978), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maître d'hôtel (Chez Pierre David, sur le Quay & proche la porte des Augustins du grand Conuent, au Roy Dauid, 1659), by Pierre David and Pierre de Lune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Home economics education (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Office of Education, Vocational Division, 1937), by Rua Van Horn, Anna Lalor Burdick, and United States. Division of Vocational Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bulletin... (city, National board of the Young women's Christian associations, 1900), by Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board. Commission on Household Employment (page images at HathiTrust)
• The management of servants : a practical guide to the routine of domestic service : containing the method of waiting on table and other duties applicable to every household (Frederick Warne and Co., 1890), by A Member of the Aristocracy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables, by Samuel Adams and Sarah Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters to a Young Housekeeper, by Jane Prince (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Greatest Plague of Life: or, the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant., by Augustus Mayhew and Henry Mayhew, illust. by George Cruikshank (Gutenberg ebook)
• Common Sense for Housemaids, by Ann Fraser Tytler (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters to Persons Who Are Engaged in Domestic Service, by Catharine Esther Beecher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Suburban Residences, and How to Circumvent Them, by J. E. Panton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Between the Larch-woods and the Weir, by Flora Klickmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Flower-Patch Among the Hills, by Flora Klickmann (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Expert Maid-Servant, by Christine Terhune Herrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business principles applied to housework, by C. Hélène Barker (Gutenberg ebook)

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