Upstairs & Downstairs: The Illustrated Guide to the Real Life of Masters and Their Servants from the Victorian Era to the Second World War
by:
Sarah Warwick (author)
This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a guided tour of a single day in an upper-crust English home of the Edwardian era. Starting with the servants hard at work while the family is still abed, and culminating in a lavish dinner party, Upstairs & Downstairs lifts the curtain on this...
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This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a guided tour of a single day in an upper-crust English home of the Edwardian era. Starting with the servants hard at work while the family is still abed, and culminating in a lavish dinner party, Upstairs & Downstairs lifts the curtain on this fascinating period, as well as its historical bookends, the Victorian and post-World War I eras. Includes accounts from actual masters and servants, along with feature spreads on famous figures like Winston Churchill and Virginia Woolf.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781847327901 (1847327907)
Publish date: September 4th 2012
Publisher: Carlton Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Some of the pictures are lovely, but the text is bad. Completely ignoring the long and violent struggle for rights sort of bad. By the end of the second world war, the author would have you believe, Britain's 1% just felt it was unfair to deprive the other 99% of everything. This is not history, nor...
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