I am reading a book, "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" and in
the part about laundry, the author says, "This made laundry day such a chore
that many better-off households hired a washerwoman to do it, since immense
amounts of water had to be boiled, the clothes blued and starched by hand,
ironed, and then put through a mangle, a tablelike contraption with two
rollers through which you rolled the clothing until it was pressed."
I would hate to have him doing my laundry!
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