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,The Servant Writes Back: Mary Ann Ashford’s ,,rs as a servant and nurse, constituting a virtual compendium of the ways in which servants could suffer from theft, deceit, isolation, food deprivation, arbitrary dismissal, and other forms of mistreatment. Ashford’s account also provides an interesting comparison with a contemporary fictional serva

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,Ellen Johnston: Autobiographical Writings of “The Factory Girl”,tracted the aid of Alexander Campbell, editor of the Glasgow ., Johnston used her memoir and autobiographical poems to narrate her years of childhood abuse, unwed motherhood, factory labor, and stubborn pride in authorship. “Factory girls” had lower standing in the Victorian class hierarchy than ser

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From Servant to Schoolmistress: Janet Bathgate and Mary Smith,Janet Bathgate, reared in rural poverty, taught herself what she needed in order to teach primary school and conduct religious classes; and Mary Smith, an intellectually inclined shoemaker’s daughter, founded a well-respected school in Carlisle. Bathgate drafted her (third-person) memoirs with marke

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