Author: William Le QueuxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Indiscretions of a Lady's Maid
Author: William Le QueuxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The indiscretions of a lady's maid
Author: William Tufnell Le QueuxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Lady's Maid
Author: Dilly CourtPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 144645617X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. As the years have passed, Kate has grown up knowing only poverty and servitude, whilst Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have been friends since childhood. But their past binds them together in ways they must never know. Until a chance meeting forces Kate and Josie to confront the truth of that night nearly twenty years before - a truth that turns both worlds upside down and threatens to destroy their friendship forever. . .
Diamonds at Dinner - My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home
Author: Tim TatePublisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1782196102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A fascinating memoir of life as a lady's maid in a big house in the 1930s, covering the beauty of the house, the housing of royals escaping the Nazis, the hard work of staff, and the experience of joining the army to serve a Countess Hilda Newman was a maid to Lady Coventry at the Worcestershire stately home of Croome Court in the 1930s. In her fascinating memoir of life below the stairs (as well as glimpses from inside the big house), she reveals what it was like living and working in the 18th Century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by parkland landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown. During World War II Croome Court housed the exiled Dutch Royal Family, who escaped the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. It was also the top-secret RAF base Defford, where radar was developed and repairs were carried out on aircraft fighting in the Battle of Britain. Hilda remembers life both upstairs and down, from the grand long gallery designed by Robert Adam and the tapestry room (since removed and transferred to the Metropolitan Museum in New York), to the hard labor demanded of serving staff and what it was like in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the women's branch of the British Army, which she joined to serve the Countess in 1940.
The Book Monthly
Author: James MilnePublisher:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Servants
Author: Lucy LethbridgePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408834073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
'Hugely enjoyable' - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Glorious ... Full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes' - Daily Telegraph Servants is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900 to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unheard class offers a fresh perspective on a dramatic century. Here, the voices of servants and domestic staff are at last brought to life: their daily household routines, attitudes towards their employers, and to each other, throw into sharp and intimate relief the period of feverish social change through which they lived. Sweeping in its scope, extensively researched and brilliantly observed, Servants is an original and fascinating portrait of twentieth-century Britain; an authoritative history that will change and challenge the way we look at society.
Littell's Living Age
Author: England's Weak Points and Germany's Position in Europe To-day
Author: Mariano HerggeletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Things I Can Tell
Author: Derrick Warner William Westenra Rossmore (5th Baron)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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