Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939 by Pamela Horn

Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939 by Pamela Horn

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.

Praise for the hardback edition: 'Pamela Horn marshalls hundreds of first-person accounts by both servants and employers.. an excellent book' * THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Wonderfully thorough... All human life, above and below stairs, is here' * THE TIMES *

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.

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ISBN 13	9781445610085
ISBN 10	1445610086
Title	Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939
Author	Pamela Horn
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Amberley Publishing
Year published	2012-09-15
Number of pages	282
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