Download or read book Roberts Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff The House Servant s Directory written by Robert Roberts and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House Servant's Directory or a monitor for private families comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of servants' work, with general rules for setting out tables and sideboards. In first order The art of waiting in all its branches and likewise how to conduct large and small parties with order with general directions for placing on table all kinds of joints, fish, fowl, etc with full instructions for cleaning plate, brass, steel, glass, mahogany and likewise all kinds of patent and common lamps: observations on servants' behaviour to their employers and upwards of 100 various and useful receipts chiefly compiled for the use of house servants, and identically made to suit the manners and customs of families in the United States
Download or read book Roberts Guide for Butlers and Household Staff written by Robert Roberts and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of humor and wit, this book was offered in 1827 in order that servants be given a handbook by which they might more efficiently perform the duties for which they were being paid.
Download or read book Roberts Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff written by Robert Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1827, Roberts’ Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff was a handbook for servants to perform their duties more efficiently and thoughtfully. Roberts gives a plethora of information about household duties of a butler like: • How to dress suitably for work • Regulations for the dinner table • Directions for cleaning tea trays • Giving Britannia metal a brilliant polish • Preserving fruits for the year • Addressing and behaving properly around your employer • And many more insights Roberts provides information on how to make the best-tasting lemonade; preserving good wine for years; not passing judgments on the other servants; never letting your master ring the bell for you twice; cleaning dirty tables with a mix of milk, turpentine, and sweet oil; rubbing off rust with salad oil and lime; and other useful tidbits for the curious butler. This is a fascinating look behind the scenes of household help and will delight any nineteenth century enthusiast.
Download or read book Roberts Guide for Butlers and Other Household Staff The House Servant s Directory written by Robert Roberts and published by Pomona Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House Servant's Directory or a monitor for private families comprising hints on the arrangement and performance of servants' work, with general rules for setting out tables and sideboards. In first order; The art of waiting in all its branches and likewise how to conduct large and small parties with order; with general directions for placing on table all kinds of joints, fish, fowl, etc with full instructions for cleaning plate, brass, steel, glass, mahogany and likewise all kinds of patent and common lamps: observations on servants' behaviour to their employers and upwards of 100 various and useful receipts chiefly compiled for the use of house servants, and identically made to suit the manners and customs of families in the United States
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Download or read book The House Servant s Directory written by Robert Roberts and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In order to get through your work in proper time, you should make it your chief study to rise early in the morning; for an hour before the family rises is worth more to you than two after they are up." So begins Robert Roberts' The House Servant's Directory, first published in 1827 and the standard for household management for decades afterward. A classic survey of work, home life, and race relations in early America, the book was the result of many years of Roberts' personal and professional experiences. One of the first books written by an African-American and published by a commercial press, this manual for butlers and waiters offers keen insight into the social milieu, hierarchy, and maintenance of the antebellum manor. As a servant to a prominent New England family, Roberts provided valuable insights into what was expected of domestic servants. His book contains an abundance of instructions for successfully completing household chores as well as suggestions for properly cleaning furniture and clothing; and for buying, preparing, and serving food and drink for dinner parties of all sizes (much of which is still useful information today). The text also contains suggestions for arranging servants' work routines, and advice to heads of families on how best to manage their domestic help -- extraordinary recommendations for master-servant relationships and highly unusual for the time. Among the most famous of etiquette books to provide instruction on proper behavior for domestic servants in the early nineteenth century, Roberts' Directory remains a critical primary source in sociology and African-American history.
Download or read book The House Servant s Directory Or A Monitor for Private Families written by Robert Roberts and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated introduction exploring the contemporary importance of the book "The House Servants Directory", the identity and character of the author, and its significance in American history.
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Download or read book Love Wages Slavery written by Barbara Ryan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the home the sacred center of social life in the nineteenth-century United States, few social tensions carried more weight than "the servant problem." As slavery tore at the nation, tension about domestic dependency became a heated topic to which publishers responded by producing a steady stream of literature instructing homemakers how to hire, treat, and discipline staff. In Love, Wages, Slavery, Barbara Ryan surveys an expansive collection of these published materials to chart shifts in thinking about what made a servant "good" and how servitors felt about attending non-kin, as well as changing ideas about gender, waged and chattel labor, status, race, and family life." "Love, Wages, Slavery examines the nature of "free" servitude before and after Emancipation through an in-depth comparison of negotiations of attendance and household management. Paying particular attention to women servants, Ryan traces a complex discussion as it developed in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Godey's Lady's Book, and Harper's Bazar."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Robert s Guide for Butlers and Household Staff written by Robert Roberts and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1827 Edition.
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Download or read book The House Servant s Directory Or a Monitor for Private Families written by Robert Roberts and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1827 and the standard for household management for decades afterward, The House Servant's Directory is one of the first books written by an African American and issued by a commercial press. It was written while Roberts (ca. 1780-1827) was in the employ of Christopher Gore (1758-1827), a former senator from Massachusetts (and ancestor of the novelist Gore Vidal). Gore Place, where Roberts worked from 1825 to 1827, is one of the grandest neoclassical mansions in America.
