Servants Abroad : Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798 (Records of Social and Economic History)

Ansell, Richard (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 284 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780197267806
• DDC分類 820.93209033

Full Description

Servants Abroad presents manuscript journals by four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century, a period that tends to be seen as the golden age of a quintessentially aristocratic form of travel, the 'Grand Tour'. Yet if each wealthy traveller brought at least one employee, as seems a safe estimate, then more people knew this kind of travel as a period of work than as a gentlemanly rite of passage or an early form of tourism. For the first time, this volume makes first-hand accounts by members of this majority available for research and teaching. With a full introduction and extensive annotations, these texts upend the standard view of eighteenth-century travel from Britain to continental Europe, casting the 'Grand Tour' as an important episode in transnational labour history, and taking the study of working-class life writing in an exciting new direction.

Contents

List of Maps

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Servants Abroad: Who, and How Many?

Sources for Travelling Servants

Travel Journals by Servants

The Evidence of Servants' Travel Journals

Note on Editorial Method

Thomas Addison

Introduction

Journal

Edmund Dewes

Introduction

Journal

James Thoburn

Introduction

Journal

Ann Scafe

Introduction

Journal

Bibliography

Index