Servants' hall real life Upstairs, Downstairs romance
| Main Author: | Powell, Margaret, 1907-1984. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
St, Martin's Press,
2013, c1979.
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| Physical Description: |
184 p. ; 22 cm. |
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| ISBN: |
9781250029294 1250029295 |
| Author Notes: |
MARGARET POWELL was born in 1907 in Hove, and left school at the age of thirteen to start working. At fourteen, she got a job in a hotel laundry room, and a year later went into service as a kitchen maid, eventually progressing to the position of cook, before marrying a milkman called Albert. In 1968 the first volume of her memoirs, Below Stairs , was published to instant success and turned her into a celebrity. She died in 1984. |