Upstairs & downstairs : the illustrated guide to the real world of Downton Abbey

Warwick, Sarah.

Book 2012

This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a guided tour of a single day in an upper-crust English home of the Edwardian era. Starting with the servants hard at work while the family is still abed, and culminating in a lavish dinner party, Upstairs & Downstairs lifts the curtain on this fascinating period, as well as its historical bookends, the Victorian and post-World War I eras. Includes accounts from actual masters and servants, along...

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ISBN:

9781862009073
9781847327901
1847327907

Description:

128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Upstairs and downstairs

Notes:

"First published in 2011 by Carlton Books"--T.p. verso
Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Before dawn
A child's friends : Beatrix Potter
Breakfast time
Study of a servant : P.G. Wodehouse
Morning activities
Votes for servants : Emmeline Pankhurst
Lunchtime
A social conscience : George Bernard Shaw
Afternoon activities
Difficult relationships : Virginia Woolf
Fine dining
Behind every great man : Winston Churchill
The end of the day
Eccentric characters : Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell

Control Number:

881158

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