The Greatest Plague of Life: or, the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant.

A recently married woman narrates her comic struggle to find a reliable domestic servant, recounting wedding-day anxieties, her mother's meddling, and a succession of absurd candidates. The account blends confessional first-person episodes, satirical sketches of applicants and employers, and cartoonish plates to lampoon domestic pretensions, class manners, and the gendered burdens of household management. Anecdotal chapters alternate practical detail with exaggerated misfortune, turning ordinary domestic mishaps into broad social comedy while examining how expectations, social rank, and personal nerves complicate everyday household life.