IT’S the beloved period drama centred around the lives of Victorian-era servants and the aristocrat overlords they gleefully obey. But while Downton Abbey, which released the film ...

It took many maids and butlers to run the opulent residences of 19th-century swells. New tours are telling their stories. Until recently, these opulent estates hadn’t paid much attention to the dozens ...

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Unflattering Bridget caricatures regularly appeared in national newspapers, stereotyping working-class Irish maids as incompetent and liable to cause havoc in middle-class homes. Cartoons frequently ...

Victorian Studies, Vol. 62, No. 2, Papers and Responses from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association (Winter 2020), pp ...