Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey

by Margaret Powell

Book Overview

Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powell's classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped aiming high.

Powell first arrived at the servants' entrance of one of those great houses in the 1920s. As...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250023211
• ISBN13: 9781250023216
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"