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Anne Frances Springsteed
Best remembered for a practical household manual from the 1890s, this writer offered detailed guidance on pantry work, table service, and dining-room management. Her book captures the skills and expectations of domestic service in its era.
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The Expert Waitress: A Manual for the Pantry, Kitchen, and Dining-Room
by Anne Frances Springsteed
About the author
Anne Frances Springsteed is known as the author of The Expert Waitress: A Manual for the Pantry, Kitchen, and Dining-Room, first published in 1894. The book was issued by Harper & Brothers and later appeared in editions that identify her as Anne Frances Springsteed Cole.
Her writing is practical and direct, focusing on the everyday work of serving meals, managing dining-room duties, and maintaining orderly household routines. Today, her work is mainly remembered as a useful historical record of domestic labor and service etiquette in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Reliable biographical information about her life appears to be very limited in the sources I could confirm, so details beyond her authorship and the publication history of her book are unclear.