The compleat servant-maid: or, The Young Maidens Tutor. Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting-Woman, house-keeper. Chamber-Maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a suppliment [sic] containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English hams equal to Westphalia. The compleat market-man and market-woman, in buying fowl, fish, flesh, &c. and to know their goodness or badness in every respect, to prevent being cheated. Never before printed

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  • The compleat servant-maid: or, The Young Maidens Tutor. Directing them how they may fit, and qualifie themselves for any of these employments. Viz. Waiting-Woman, house-keeper. Chamber-Maid, cook-maid, under-cook-maid, nursery-maid, dairy-maid, laundry-maid, house-maid, scullery-maid. Whereunto is added a suppliment [sic] containing the choicest receipts and rarest secrets in physick and chyrurgery; also for salting and drying English hams equal to Westphalia. The compleat market-man and market-woman, in buying fowl, fish, flesh, &c. and to know their goodness or badness in every respect, to prevent being cheated. Never before printed
  • Compleat servant maid; Young maidens tutor; A supplement to the compleat servant maid
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for E. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1704. Seventh edition with additions.; ..
Added name
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670.
Publication year
1704
ESTC No.
T226747
Grub Street ID
248205
Description
179, [1] p. :bill. ; 12°.
Note
"An unauthorized work based on [Hannah Wooley's] books and adorned by a spurious portrait and unreliable biographical information was published in 1673 as The Gentlewomans Companion, and similar works followed in 1675 (The Accomplished Ladies Delight) and 1685 [sic] (The Compleat Servant-Maid). Like her authentic works, these were reprinted frequently." -- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The words "Waiting-woman, ... Under-cook-maid," and "Nursery-maid, ... Scullery-maid." are bracketed together on title page

With a frontispiece illustration.