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

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 fasc...

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Main Author: Warwick, Sarah
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : Carlton Books, 2012, c2011.
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300 |a 128 p. :  |b ill. (some col.) ;  |c 29 cm. 
500 |a Includes index. 
520 |a 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 with feature spreads on famous figures.--From publisher description. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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650 0 |a Upper class  |z England  |x Social life and customs  |y 20th century. 
651 0 |a Great Britain  |x History  |y Edward VII, 1901-1910. 
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