Clothing Heating, Lighting, Plumbing Furniture Cooking Servants Infant care Child-rearing Women-class distinctions, gender distinctions Men-class distinctions, gender distinctions City vs. country Seasonal amusements Toys and games Social activities Washing day Gardening
Dames' schools Tutors and governesses Public schools (Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Westminster) Girls' schools Charity schools Dissenting academies Oxford and Cambridge Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin Apprenticeships Inns of Court (law) The Grand Tour
barristers and solicitors, clergymen of the Church of England, officers in the army and navy, physicians, ??authors, ??artists, ??scholars and professors (University only); land owner
homemaker, companion, governess; as widow, or, exceptionally, as single heiress: landowner marginally, with capital, landlady or school mistress (owner only)
mill owner, mine owner, shipping, banking, surgeons and man-midwives, school masters gentleman farmers brewers printers and book-sellers (=publishers) linen drapers (cloth) ?? estate managers ??theatre owners
tailors, hatters, shoemakers, glaziers hardware mongers owners of pubs, livery stables, inns, and hotels apothecaries master weavers architects and builders skilled artisans, such as glass blowers, cabinet makers, makers of riding boots, typesetters, master weavers, architects and builders butchers grocers drivers of stage coaches, etc.
clerks (secretaries and assistants to those in upper and middle middle-class jobs and professions), ushers (lower teachers in schools), lower clergy (curates), scriveners and other copyists correctors of the press (=copy editors) ??music and dancing masters
actors and other performers, overseas entrepreneurs, creators of patent medicines midwife
farm laborers, workers in the new factories, soldiers and sailors assistants to the workers in the less desirable middle-class jobs Night watchman
stable-hand to coachman, from gardener's boy to master gardener, from boot-boy to footman to butler or "gentleman's gentleman" (valet); a girl might work up from scullery maid to housemaid to parlormaid to housekeeper, lady's maid, or cook; or from nursery maid to nurse or nanny (not governess).
Pleasure gardens (Vauxhall, Ranelagh) Transportation (boats and ships, stage, mail, post; hackney carriages, chairs) Theatres Pubs Coffee houses Clubs Eating houses Concerts Fairs and shows Puppet theatres Prisons Hospitals The Tower of London Public gardens and promenades (Kew, Kensington, Pall Mall, etc) Shopping emporia
The Church of England Catholics Jews Dissenters Quakers Methodists "Freethinkers"
candour does not mean frankness;
it means kindness, good will
discover doesn't always
mean find or find out; it often
means reveal ordisclose
disgusting doesn't mean repulsive,
just distasteful
eat may be used instead
of ate
general means wide
ranging, not abstract
great means powerful,
not necessarilyexcellent
meat can mean any kind
of food
nature can mean reality
sentiments can mean thoughts,
not feelings
vulgar means ordinary,
commonplace, not coarsely
low
slut means untidy
person, not sexually licentious
woman
enthusiastic often implies inflated
religious opinions, not excited approval of something
(based on Donald J. Greene, in his edition of Johnson's Works (Oxford Standard Authors)