| Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939 Contributor(s): Horn, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1445610086 ISBN-13: 9781445610085 Publisher: Amberley Publishing OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - Social Science - History | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 331 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.9" W x 7.6" (0.60 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By the end of the 1920s domestic service remained the largest female occupation in Britain. We view it today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen in such dramas as Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey. But what do we really know about how girls felt when taking up these positions in other people's houses, or how they were treated? Pamela Horn uses first-hand accounts and reminiscences, as well as official records and newspaper reports, to extract the truth about the lives and status of men and women in domestic service from 1900 to 1939. |
Contributor Bio(s): Horn, Pamela: - Dr Pamela Horn lectured in economic and social history at Oxford Polytechnic, (now Oxford Brookes University), for over twenty years. She had written a number of books on social history topics covering the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century life. That includes several books on child life and schooling during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Pamela sadly passed away in 2014. |