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MsSonnetMarwood -> RE: What is Edwardian Lifestyle (5/31/2007 7:39:04 AM)
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The slave in question should probably clarify for you. However, what he may be looking for is some sort of butler/footman type role in a strict BDSM household atmosphere.
There's a great book kicking around called "The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant" by Pamela Horn which is a historical work studying servants. There's a great chapter on the different type of specific servants with descriptions of what their duties would typically include. The book is out of print last time I checked, but it's not difficult finding used copies through amazon.com. There's actually a lot of books on the subject of servants of that era although most aren't still in print - I probably have a dozen or more myself. There's also a couple books out now that provide info about a contemporary butlers and servants if you look.
The interesting thing (for service geeks anyway) is that during that era, the hierarchy of servants was actually very strict in a larger household. The movie Gosford Park is a great illustration of this, as is the previously mentioned PBS series Manor House. You just didn't ask the butler to do anything that falls under the hallboy's duties - it would have been deeply insulting to him. Having male servants - butler, footmen, etc - was a status symbol, particularly if that servant was good looking and tall. There were what was refered to as a "tweeny" or a "maid of all work", which would always have been a woman, and whose duties would be clearly defined as basically responsible for everything - this was more typical of the middle class household that would only have one or two servants.
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