Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.
Introduction: "Kitchen literature" -- "Let nothing ever induce you to read novels": servants and sensationalism in the mid-nineteenth century -- "Merely telling the truth": servants' stories in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights -- "No human being ever was created for this": the servant victim in the works of Wilkie Collins -- "Privileged spies": the criminal servant in Lady Audley's Secret -- "She had her rôle to play": East Lynne and the servant actress -- "We will still be husband and wife": the servant as spouse in Gaskell's The grey woman -- "The stuff of lurid fiction": sensation fiction in the twenty-first century.
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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Home economics in literature.
Household employees in literature.
Literature and society-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Middle class women-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Popular literature-- Great Britain-- History and criticism.
Valets in literature.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.