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Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society over a Century Ago
Pamela Horn
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Description for Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society over a Century Ago
Paperback. The real lives of women in Britain's country houses. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBLW; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, where they spent the Season and where the girls officially entered Society by being presented at Court. Pamela Horn’s book examines the lives of these ladies from their childhood and marriage to their role as a ‘Lady Bountiful’. It covers their leisure pursuits, sporting activities, country house weekends, and much more besides, up to the life-transforming years of the First World War.
In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, where they spent the Season and where the girls officially entered Society by being presented at Court. Pamela Horn’s book examines the lives of these ladies from their childhood and marriage to their role as a ‘Lady Bountiful’. It covers their leisure pursuits, sporting activities, country house weekends, and much more besides, up to the life-transforming years of the First World War.
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
267g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445619811
SKU
V9781445619811
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
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 Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society over a Century Ago
‘Pamela Horn has used original sources to investigate the times of these privileged women before society was utterly changed by the First Word War & its aftermath’