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• Household employees
• Juvenile fiction

• The Green Casket, and Other Stories (London and Edunburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1890), by Mrs. Molesworth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• J. Cole, by Emma Gellibrand (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Congo in Search of His Master: An American Tale, Containing a True Account of a Shipwreck and Interspersed With Anecdotes Found on Facts, by Mrs. John Farrar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• When Are We Happiest? or, The Little Camerons (sixth edition; Boston: W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1848), by Louisa C. Tuthill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Ned Franks: or, The Christian's Panoply (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1866), by A. L. O. E. (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Edge of a Moor (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1897), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Roses (New York: W. B. Ketcham, c1899), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Sydney Cowell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Little Women: A Story for Girls (1913), by Gabrielle E. Jackson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Three Little Women's Success: A Story for Girls (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., c1913), by Gabrielle E. Jackson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

• Die in Österreich Gestenden (24) Dienstboten-Ordnungen (in German; Vienna: Manz, 1901), by Hugo Morgenstern
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Home-Help in Canada (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1912), by Ella Sykes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Correspondence Respecting the Alleged Existence of Chinese Slavery in Hong Kong: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty (London: Printed by Eyre and Spottiswood for H.M.S.O., 1882), contrib. by John Pope-Hennessy
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at Oregon Digial

• Are You Interested in the Servant Question? (New Haven, CT: Printed at the United Workers Boys' Club, 1917), by Civic Federation of New Haven (page images at Harvard)

• Mistress and Maid: A Household Story (Richmond: West and Johnson, 1864), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Gutenberg text)

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

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

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

• Bealby: A Holiday (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bealby: A Holiday (Chicago and New York: M. A. Donohue and Co., 1915), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Live and Let Live: or, Domestic Service Illustrated (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1837), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)
• The Mysterious Key, and What it Opened (c1867), by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Emily Fox-Seton: Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst", by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by C. D. Williams (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Amazing Years (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917), by W. Pett Ridge
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Miss Lulu Bett (novel), by Zona Gale (Gutenberg text)

• Carry On, Jeeves (originally published 1925; this edition 1999), by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• My Man Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text)
• Right Ho, Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text and audio)

• The Old Manor House (London: J. Bell, 1793; Reprinted London: Pandora Press, 1987), by Charlotte Smith (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Henrietta (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for A. Millar, 1761), by Charlotte Lennox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1911), by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1911), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Live and Let Live: or, Domestic Service Illustrated (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1837), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (HTML and page images at Virginia)
• Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson (Gutenberg text)
• What Diantha Did, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Gutenberg text)
• Merely Mary Ann (popular edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1913), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• The Old Manor House (based on the British Novelists two-volume edition, 1810-1820), by Charlotte Smith, ed. by Mrs. Barbauld (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Wanted: A Chaperon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1902), by Paul Leicester Ford, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy and Margaret Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Domestic Enemies: Servants and Their Masters in Old Regime France (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Cissie C. Fairchilds (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study; Together With a Special Report on Negro Domestic Service (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1899), by W. E. B. Du Bois, contrib. by Isabel Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The House Servant's Directory (Boston: Munroe and Francis; New York: C. S. Francis, 1827), by Robert Roberts (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945 (originally published 1989; this edition Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018), by Phyllis M. Palmer, contrib. by Vanessa H. May (multiple formats with commentary at Temple)

• Bessy Conway: or, The Irish Girl in America (New York: D. and J. Sadlier, 1861), by Mrs. J. Sadlier (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Bessy Conway: or, The Irish Girl in America (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. J. Sadlier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, by Harriet E. Wilson (Gutenberg text)

• Distant Companions: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Karen Tranberg Hansen (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Miss Lulu Bett: An American Comedy of Manners (stage play, two endings; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1921), by Zona Gale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Exported and Exposed: Abuses against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2007), by Jennifer Turner (HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Exported and Exposed: Abuses against Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2007), by Jennifer Turner (HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.