The Country House Servant
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The Country House Servant
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Author : Pamela A Sambrook
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2002-05-13
The Country House Servant written by Pamela A Sambrook and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-13 with History categories.
One 19th century footman complained about the work involved in drawing more than 40 baths for his household, yet Lady Grenville felt no compunction in describing her footman as a "lazy flunkey". For centuries a large body of domestic servants was an often unappreciated foundation for the smooth running of a household. Today, the warrens of "domestic offices" intrigue visitors. This book makes sense of these and the social structures behind them. It describes the skills, equipment, cleaning methods and work organization of the housemaid, laundrymaid, footman, valet and hall-boy - the servants who spent their days polishing fine furniture, and washing brilliant chandeliers, but also sponging filthy riding habits, and washing babies' nappies. The author also looks at how servants spent their leisure time. One footman enjoyed rowing on the lake every morning before work, while others had to sit up late at night sewing their own work-dresses. Contemporary manuals, diaries, accounts and first hand recollections provide a vivid insight into what life was really like for those in domestic service. A wealth of photographs, engravings and panels illustrate the domestic workings of country houses, many now looked after by the National Trust. This is an absorbing book for social historians and visitors to country houses alike.
The Country House Servant
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Author : Pamela Sambrook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Country House Servant written by Pamela Sambrook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Country homes categories.
Keeping Their Place
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Author : Pamela A Sambrook
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2005-07-21
Keeping Their Place written by Pamela A Sambrook and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-21 with History categories.
In 1851 there were over a million servants in Britain. This book reveals first-hand tales of put-upon servants, who often had to rise hours before dawn to lay fires, heat water and prepare meals for their employers, and then work into the small hours. Yet there are also heart-warming stories of personal devotion, and reward, and of how the servants enjoyed themselves in their time off. There are moments of great poignancy as well as hilarity: a steward's dawning realisation that the housekeeper he befriended is a thief; a young footman chasing a melon as it rolls through a castle's corridors into the moat; the smart manservant weeping at the station as he bids farewell to his mother. This was an era when footmen were paid extra for being six foot or over, and female servants had to wear black bonnets to church. Drawing on letters, diaries, and autobiographies "Keeping Their Place" provides a vivid insight into the day-by-day lives of country house servants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
Up And Down Stairs Ssb
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Author : Jeremy Musson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Up And Down Stairs Ssb written by Jeremy Musson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with categories.
The Servants Story
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Author : Pamela Sambrook
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2016-11-15
The Servants Story written by Pamela Sambrook and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with History categories.
A look at the personal lives of the people who served one of the richest families in Britain.
Life Below Stairs In The Victorian And Edwardian Country House
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Author : Siân Evans
language : en
Publisher: National Trust
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Life Below Stairs In The Victorian And Edwardian Country House written by Siân Evans and has been published by National Trust this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Social Science categories.
From the cook, butler and housekeeper to the footman, lady's maid and nanny, this is a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of some of Britain's grandest houses. An entertaining social history, steering the reader through the minefield of etiquette and hierarchy that kept Britain's great houses running like clockwork. A bygone era is brought vividly to live through letters, journals, interviews, lively descriptions and stunning photography of the places and possessions left behind. The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent ‘in service’ are lying just below the surface of many great houses; the physical evidence can be seen in surviving servants’ quarters, the material of their everyday life, even their uniforms and possessions. This account provides a fascinating glimpse at who's who behind the scenes, from the cook, butler and housekeeper to the footmen, lady's maids, governesses and tutors, nannies and nursemaids. Giving a fascinating insight into the heirarchy within the servant's quarters – from the power-wielding cook to the ever-discreet butler – this guide describes how relationships were forged and changed as the gap between upstairs and downstairs was bridged. Describing their typical working day as well as the holidays, entertainments and pastimes enjoyed on a rare day off, not to mention the whirl of the social season, this previously ‘unwritten history’ recalls vividly the nature of their lives below stairs.
The Country House
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Author : John Vanbrugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
The Country House written by John Vanbrugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with categories.
The Housekeeper S Tale
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Author : Tessa Boase
language : en
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date : 2014-05-19
The Housekeeper S Tale written by Tessa Boase and has been published by Aurum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-19 with History categories.
Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want – and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and gruelling physical labour. Until now, her story has never been told. The Housekeeper’s Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women’s careers. Delving into secret diaries, unpublished letters and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain’s most prominent households. There is Dorothy Doar, Regency housekeeper for the obscenely wealthy 1st Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. There is Sarah Wells, a deaf and elderly Victorian in charge of Uppark, West Sussex. Ellen Penketh is Edwardian cook-housekeeper at the sociable but impecunious Erddig Hall in the Welsh borders. Hannah Mackenzie runs Wrest Park in Bedfordshire – Britain’s first country-house war hospital, bankrolled by playwright J. M. Barrie. And there is Grace Higgens, cook-housekeeper to the Bloomsbury set at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex for half a century – an era defined by the Second World War. Revelatory, gripping and unexpectedly poignant, The Housekeeper’s Tale champions the invisible women who ran the English country house. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-GBX-NONEX-NONE
The Country House
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1740
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The Country House A Farce
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Author : Sir John Vanbrugh
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-27
The Country House A Farce written by Sir John Vanbrugh and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-27 with categories.
Excerpt from Act I: Lisetta. Once more I tell ye, Sir, if you have any consideration in the world for her, you must be gone this minute. Erastus. My dear Lisetta, let me but speak to her, let me but see her only. Lisetta. You may do what you will; but not here, whilst you are in our house. I do believe she's as impatient to see you, as you can be to see her; but-- Erastus. But why won't you give us that satisfaction then? Lisetta. Because I know the consequence; for when you once get together, the Devil himself is not able to part you; you will stay so long 'till you are surpriz'd, and what will become of us then? Servant. Why, then we shall be thrown out at the window, I suppose. Lisetta. No, but I shall be turn'd out of doors. Erastus. How unfortunate am I! these doors are open to all the world, and only shut to me. Lisetta. Because you come for a wife, and at our house we do not care for people that come for wives. Servant. What would you have us come for, child?