Victorian photo #83: Shanklin Village, Isle of Wight (100 Gems of English Scenery)
The Millman family walked through the town of Shanklin on their way to experience the scenic beauties of Shanklin Chine in 1892 (see The Millman Letters).
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Victorian Girl Workers of London: 1. The Match-Box Makers
If you’re researching your family history, part of its fascination is the chance to understand how your ancestors lived. I found this article in a book owned by...
Read MoreSnippets of Victorian advice from Young Woman magazine (#1)
Curiously addictive as well as a useful resource for researching Victorian life, these responses were given to girls who wrote in to Young Woman magazine in the 1890s. The original enquiry letters were not printed.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
EDITH J. – Your best plan would be to acquire a business training for such occupation as you are likely to find remunerative. In the business world a reference from a Sunday-school teacher is not usually accounted valuable. To gain any situation by advertising, it would be necessary to allege some previous experience. If you have any talent for dressmaking, I know of no better opening than it offers to the qualified and capable. A good dressmaker, willing to go out by the day, can easily earn, with board, 12s. to 18s. per week, combined with a life that is not arduous, and that, in a quiet way, has a great deal of variety in it.
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Victorian photo #76: The Watersmeet, Lynton, Devon (100 Gems of English Scenery)
Hepsie and Herbert Jollyman had their honeymoon at Lynton, and returned twenty-five years later for their ‘Honeyspoon’ – a holiday in the same place (see The Honeyspoon Letters). They went to Watersmeet and admired the scenery, but they certainly didn’t start pontificating in Latin phrases!
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Coping with an inexperienced servant girl: Victorian advice from Ella Day
Are you having trouble getting good servants?
Read this advice from Ella Day in ‘Young Woman’ Magazine (1896):
TO THE WOMAN WHO CANNOT GET ON WITH HER SERVANTS.
MY DEAR FRIEND, – Your cup of trouble certainly seems pretty full. Five different servants in eight months, and all of them, apparently, as bad as bad can be! You say they give you no help, that you would be much better without them. In that case I cannot help wondering why you have inflicted this quite gratuitous burden on yourself. It does not seem for any relief to you, and I think I can conclude with confidence that it is not for any excessive pleasure to the employed.
Has it ever occurred to you that
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