,

1. The life of Victorian
maid
Nguyet Ha

2. 17/8/1854
My goodness I'm tired! I have not written
in my diary for a few days because I have
been utterly faint with tiredness!

3. Here is my dreaded schedule:
6.00am
Get up and dress (7.00am Sundays).
Collect shoes and boots from outside
the bedrooms on the way to the
kitchen.

4. Start cooking the breakfast porridge.
Clean the house.

5. 7.30am
Take water to the nursery for nurse to wash
babies. Call the daughter of the house. Lay
and light fires in the other rooms.

6. 8.00am
Take up breakfast tray to nursery.
8.15am
Family prayers.

7. 8.30am
Family have breakfast.
Servants have breakfast in the kitchen.
Help collect dishes from dining room.
Clean the bedrooms and make the
beds.
Prepare the vegetables for lunch and
dinner.

8. 1.00pm
Family have lunch.
Servants have lunch afterwards in the
kitchen.
Do the washing up.
Put on my afternoon dress.

9. 4.00pm
Prepare the nursery for tea.
Carry jugs of hot water to bedrooms so that
family can wash before dinner.
Go to own room to wash and tidy up.
Help the daughter of the house to dress for
dinner.

10. 7.00pm
Family have dinner.
Tidy drawing room, where family will have
coffee.
Take up coffee tray to the ladies.
Start the washing up.

11. 9.00pm
Carry on with the washing up.
11.15pm
Make sure that all the downstairs fires are
safe for the night. Collect and empty hot
water jugs from bedrooms.

12. 1130pm
Go to bed!!
Oh goodness! It makes me tired just looking
at it!!

13. Thank you for listening.