Mistress and Maid: ramblings about housekeeping

For Christmas, I was given the Persephone Books edition of Kay Smallshaw’s How to Run your Home without Help, first published in post-war, rationed Britain in 1949. No, it wasn’t a subtle hint that an educated person could write their name in the dust on the piano. I asked for it because I am interested in these old housekeeping books. ( Read more... )