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''[[Belgravia, or Servantgolism]]'' is a variety sketch from the 19th century.
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==The original text==
 
 
 
The sketch most probably derives from the wonderful series of satirical sketches in ''Punch'' magazine in the 1850s, drawn by John Leech and others to illustrate a phenomenon they called "Servantgalism",  referring to the "servant problem" and especially the phenomenon of servants trying to act or dress like their masters.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1871: Performed three times by the [[D'Arcy Read Company]] in the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town (on 9, 16 and 23 October), with ''[[The Ring and the Keeper]]'' (Wooler) and "reminiscences of" Sheridan Knowles's ''[[The Cousins]]''.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
"The Servant Problem: Servantgalism" in the ''Servants' Stories'' Blogspot, Friday, 4 September 2015. [http://servantsstories.blogspot.co.za/2015/09/the-servant-problem-servantgalism.html]
 
 
 
''John Leech Archive'', John Leech Sketches: keyword "servants"[http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/keyword/servants.htm]
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 250
 
 
 
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