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Sarah Adams Author, Translator & Editor

Samuel and Sarah Adams were 50 years in service, starting as the lowest menials and ending as Butler and Housekeeper, respectively. Pamela Horn has written a number of books on English country life and education during the 18th and 19th-centuries, including Life and Labour in Rural England 1760-1850 (1987) and The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant .