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Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, 1939 to the Present
Pamela Horn
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Description for Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, 1939 to the Present
Paperback. The real lives of servants in the second half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 212.
We view domestic service 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. 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 1939 to the present.
We view domestic service 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. 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 1939 to the present.
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445618982
SKU
V9781445618982
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Ref
99-99
About Pamela Horn
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.
Reviews for Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, 1939 to the Present
Wonderfully thorough... All human life, above and below stairs, is here'
THE TIMES
Immaculately scholarly book... splendid... a thoroughly researched and readable volume'
THE TELEGRAPH
THE TIMES
Immaculately scholarly book... splendid... a thoroughly researched and readable volume'
THE TELEGRAPH