Country House Life: Family and Servants 1815-1914

by Jessica Gerard and Jessica Gerard

This is an account of the lives of the families and the servants of the British country house from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the onset of the Great War. It is a pioneering history based on contemporary records, diaries, private and public autobiographies, and on the childhood recollections of living descendants. Never before have the intimacies of life above and below stairs been depicted with such clarity and vividness. Country house family...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 063115566X
• ISBN13: 9780631155669
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"