Manor House By Juliet Gardiner

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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 & 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 & poverty were starkly delineated & 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, & recipes, while special craft features enable readers to create a range of authentic Edwardian delights for themselves.