The Duties Of The Cook And The Parlourmaid
byDifferent types of households required different types of servants, and in smaller houses, the servants combined the duties taken on by multiple servants in…
upper class
An Edwardian Breakfast
byMore than one’s residence, food and fashion greatly demarcates the wealth–or poverty–of the individual or family. During the Edwardian era, this was never more…
Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy
byFrom the end of Reconstruction until the Great War, Washington was the center of the black aristocracy. Nowhere else in the United States possessed…