For the past several decades, a steady stream of books has been published about the men and women who labored in in the country houses and townhouses of Great Britain. While Pamela Horn's book was among the first to benefit from the burgeoning interest in the subject, it has endured thanks to its cl...
This was a good start for anyone interested in finding out the lives of late Victorian and Edwardian aristocratic women. The author uses exsitant letters and diaries to show how some women were content to stay in the roles of mother and wife and benefactor, but others were more daring and took stand...