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Manor House by Juliet Gardiner
Manor House By Juliet Gardiner
    Manor House, Life in an
    Edwardian Country House
    is a lavishly
    illustrated,
    large-format companion
    book to the television
    series. The author Juliet
    Gardiner first sets the
    historic backdrop of the
    period and then explores
    the key events in the
    social calendar of the
    family - a fancy dress
    ball, , a society dinner
    party, a village fete,
    a musical evening, a
    shooting party. She not
    only details the
    activities from the point
    of view of the family of
    the house, but as from
    that of the servants.
    This was the era when the
    privileges of the rich
    were only made possible
    by the labour of their
    servants, an age when
    the inequalities of
    wealth and poverty were
    starkly delineated and
    the conventions of class
    were still rigidly, if
    complexly, defined.
    Descriptions of the
    day-to-day activities
    involved in running a
    country house are told
    through diary extracts,
    letters, advice manuals,
    and recipes, while
    special craft features
    enable readers to create
    a range of authentic
    Edwardian delights for
    themselves.
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The Maids Tale by Rose Plummer with Tom Quinn
The Maids Tale By Rose Plummer
With Tom Quinn
    At the age of fifteen,
    Rose left the noise and
    squalor of Hoxton and
    started work as a live-in
    maid at a house in the
    West End. Despite the
    poverty of her childhood,
    nothing could have
    prepared her for the long
    hours, the backbreaking
    work and the harshness of
    this new world - a world
    in which servants were
    treated as if they were
    less than human.
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Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
Below Stairs By Margaret
Powell
    As a kitchen maid ï ½ the
    lowest of the low ï ½ she
    entered an entirely new
    world; one of stoves to
    be blacked, vegetables
    to be scrubbed,
    mistresses to be
    appeased, and even
    bootlaces to be ironed.
    Work started at 5.30 a.m.
    and went on until after
    dark. It was a far cry
    from her childhood on the
    beaches of Hove, where
    money and food were
    scarce, but love and
    laughter never were. Yet,
    from the gentleman with
    a penchant for stroking
    the housemaids' curlers,
    to raucous tea-dances
    with errand boys, to the
    heartbreaking story of
    Agnes the pregnant
    under-parlourmaid,
    Margaret's tales of her
    time in service are told
    with wit, warmth and a
    sharp eye for the
    prejudices of her
    situation. Brilliantly
    evoking the long-vanished
    world of masters and
    servants, Below Stairs
    is the remarkable true
    story of an indomitable
    woman, who, though her
    position was lowly,
    never stopped aiming
    high.
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