Suggested preparatory reading:
Amanda Flather, Gender and Space in Early Modern England (2007), esp. cc. 2, 3, 4; Tim Meldrum, Domestic Service and Gender 1660-1750: Life and Work in the London Household (2000), esp. c. 4; Ann Kussmaul, Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England (1981), cc. 1, 4.