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1) Below stairs: the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey
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English
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"A kitchen-maid's through-the-key hole memoir of life in the great houses of England--now a bestseller in the UK. At fifteen, she arrived at the servants' entrance to begin her life as a kitchen maid in 1920s England. The lowest of the low, her world was one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5:30am and went on until after dark. In this captivating memoir,...
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English
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In the sequel to Below Stairs, Powell tells the true story of Rose, the under-parlourmaid to the Wardham Family at Redlands, who took a shocking step: She eloped with the family's only son. Once again bringing a lost world to life, Powell trains her pen on her "betters" in this next warm, funny chapter from a life spent in service.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Description
414 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 20 cm
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English
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From the moment she came into the world - two weeks early, throwing her parents' lives into disarray - Mary has gracefully but firmly done things her way. A love affair with cookery in her teens became a full-time career as one of our most prolific and best-loved cookery writers, and at nearly eighty a TV sensation on the Great British Bake Off. But as a working mother, at the heart of a busy household, Mary was also a woman ahead of her time: attempting...
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