Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939

by Pamela Horn

Book Overview

By the end of the 1920s domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain. We view it today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen in such dramas as Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey. But what do we really know about how girls felt when taking up these positions in other people's houses, or how they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445610086
• ISBN13: 9781445610085
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.6"