A present for a servant-maid [electronic resource] : or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem. Under the following heads. Observance. Avoiding sloth. Sluttishness. Staying on Errands. Telling Family Affairs. Secrets among Fellow-Servants. Entring into their Quarrels. Tale-Bearing. Being an Eye-Servant. Carelessness of Children. Of Fire, Candle, Thieves. New Acquaintance. Fortune-Tellers. Giving saucy Answers. Liquorishness. Apeing the Fashion. Dishonesty. The Market Penny. Delaying to give Change. Giving away Victuals. Bringing in Chair-Women, Wasting Victuals Quarrels with Fellow-Servants. Behaviour to the Sick. Hearing Things against a Master or Mistress. Being too free with Men Servants. Conduct toward Apprentices. Mispending Time. Publick Shews. Vails. Giving Advice too freely. Chastity. Temptations from the Master. If a single Man. If a married Man. If from the Master's Son. If from Gentle men Lodgers. To which are Added, Directions for going to Market, Also. For Dressing any Common Dish, whether Flesh, Fish, or Fowl. With some Rules for Washing, &c. The Whole calculated for making both the Mistress and the Maid happy.
1743
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A present for a servant-maid [electronic resource] : or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem. Under the following heads. Observance. Avoiding sloth. Sluttishness. Staying on Errands. Telling Family Affairs. Secrets among Fellow-Servants. Entring into their Quarrels. Tale-Bearing. Being an Eye-Servant. Carelessness of Children. Of Fire, Candle, Thieves. New Acquaintance. Fortune-Tellers. Giving saucy Answers. Liquorishness. Apeing the Fashion. Dishonesty. The Market Penny. Delaying to give Change. Giving away Victuals. Bringing in Chair-Women, Wasting Victuals Quarrels with Fellow-Servants. Behaviour to the Sick. Hearing Things against a Master or Mistress. Being too free with Men Servants. Conduct toward Apprentices. Mispending Time. Publick Shews. Vails. Giving Advice too freely. Chastity. Temptations from the Master. If a single Man. If a married Man. If from the Master's Son. If from Gentle men Lodgers. To which are Added, Directions for going to Market, Also. For Dressing any Common Dish, whether Flesh, Fish, or Fowl. With some Rules for Washing, &c. The Whole calculated for making both the Mistress and the Maid happy.
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London : printed and publish'd by T. Gardner, at Cowley's Head, without Temple-Bar; and sold by the booksellers of town and country, [1743]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[4],76p. ; 8⁰.
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Anonymous. By Eliza Haywood.
P.63 misnumbered 6.
This edition has running titles, and on the titlepage the price is 'one shilling, or 25 for a guinea'.
Price from imprint: price One Shilling, or 25 for a Guinea to those who gives them away.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
P.63 misnumbered 6.
This edition has running titles, and on the titlepage the price is 'one shilling, or 25 for a guinea'.
Price from imprint: price One Shilling, or 25 for a Guinea to those who gives them away.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T76347.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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