Diana Rybak First Year English Research Paper Final Draft April 30, 2001 Servitude during the 1800s has been the subject of much research and discussion. A Victorian novel about the conflicts of an upper-class family is not complete without the inclusion of a trusty servant, or a nosy maid, who often add a great deal to the plot and character of the novel overall. The main servant figures in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847), Nelly Dean, serves …showed first 75 words of 1880 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1880 total…Wojtczak, Helena. English Social History – Women of Hastings and St. Leonards. September 2000. <http://members.tripod.co.uk/HastingsHistory/women.htm> This is a site about the lives of women in Hastings and around the area. One of the pages on the site deals specficaly with domestic servants and has nice examples of adds people put in the papers which show the qualities they expected from their servants. Kavanagh, James H. Emily Bronte. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985.