She also had little free time, being allowed out on Sundays only to go to church. This swarmed with black-beetles and made her ‘very wretched at night’.
When she was thirteen the girl went to another small London household, where she had a good mistress and plenty of food but had to sleep in a basement kitchen. Among them were artizans and small shopkeepers, like the Bethnal Green woman who employed a ten-year-old girl in the mid-1860’s to look after a baby and to serve in the shop. as marking the division between the working classes, and those of a higher social scale’.A large proportion of the maids worked in households with one or two domestics only, around three-fifths of the nation’s servant-keepers falling into this category. When Seebohm Rowntree conducted his social survey of the people of York in 1899 he took ‘the keeping or not keeping of domestic servants.
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