Dishing the Servant Dirt
My latest book, Mr. Bishop and the Actress , is about servants, more or less. The hero and heroine are upper servants, and their relationship with their employers is almost as strong as their relationship with each other. In her fabulous review at Dear Author , Jennie said, * It’s a strange world we live in where romances featuring vampires, angels and werewolves (or possibly even a vampire/angel/werewolf hybrid) are de rigeur , but a simple historical romance between two commoners has to be hunted down or purchased from international sources. I'm much more interested in commoners than dukes, and I've been researching servants for several years; servants were the largest workforce in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Just recently, from an entry in the 1901 census, I found out that my maternal grandmother was in service before she married. But today I want to talk about a truly extraordinary master-servant relationship that historians have tiptoed around a bit, and with ...