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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...

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Main Author: Warwick, Sarah.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: London : Carlton Books, 2012, c2011.
Subjects:
Household employees > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Household employees > Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Country homes > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Upper class > England > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Great Britain > History > Edward VII, 1901-1910.
Table of 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.

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