Dave wrote:
Back to the servants, and thanks again for Joanna's absorbing post, but I
don't see that there would be a necessary split between forms of labour in a
servant establishment except when numbers created hierarchies of labour.
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The point is that the mistress of the house would not have let a grubby
little skivvy get her hands, which may have been contaminated by all sorts
of crap, get anywhere near her hair.
Also the skivvy would not have had the skills IMHO.
Roger (not Joanna)
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