Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant - Jeremy Musson

Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous marriage of a squire to his dairymaid at Uppark. Jeremy Musson captures the voices of the servants who ran these vast houses, and made them work. From unpublished memoirs to letters, wages, newspaper articles, he pieces together their daily lives from the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century.

tytuł oryginału

Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant

data wydania

kwiecień 2010 (data przybliżona)

ISBN

0719597307

język

angielski