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The country house servant / Pamela A. Sambrook.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HD8039.D52 G844 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sambrook, Pamela.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Household employees--England--History.
- Household employees.
- Country homes--Great Britain--History.
- Country homes.
- Household employees--Great Britain--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud : Sutton in association with the National Trust, 1999.
- Summary:
- Featuring well-known British country houses and first-hand recollections of the people who ran them, this book describes the life and duties of a country house servant from cleanliness and order to their staff roles as bootboys, housekeepers, cooks, laundry maids, and more. Contemporary sources including manuals, diaries, newspapers and country house accounts reveal what life was really like for housemaids and their fellow servants. Produced in association with the National Trust.
- Notes:
- Published in association with The National Trust.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Ellis A. Wasson, Ph.D.
- ISBN:
- 075091632X
- 9780750916325
- OCLC:
- 655636572
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