Servants a downstairs history of Britain from the nineteenth century to modern times
A compassionate and discerning exploration of the complex relationship between the server, the served, and the world they lived in, Servants opens a window onto British society from the Edwardian period to the present.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
W. W. Norton & Company,
2013.
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| Edition: | First American Edition. |
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| 005 | 20131106165000.0 | ||
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| 100 | 1 | |a Lethbridge, Lucy, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Servants : |b a downstairs history of Britain from the nineteenth century to modern times / |c Lucy Lethbridge. |
| 250 | |a First American Edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, N.Y. : |b W. W. Norton & Company, |c 2013. | |
| 300 | |a xi, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published under the title: Servants : a downstairs view of twentieth-century Britain. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-368) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The symbolic pantomime. "A sort of silence and embarrassment" ; The dainty life ; "A seat in the hall" ; Centralising the egg yolks ; Popinjays and mob caps ; The desire for perfection ; "Some poor girl's got to go up and down, up and down-- " -- The sacred trust. The ideal village ; "Silent, obsequious, and omnipresent" ; Bowing and scraping -- The age of ambivalence. "Out of a cage" ; "Don't think your life will be any different to mine" "It was exploitation but it worked" ; "Tall, strong, healthy, and keen to work" ; The mechanical maid -- Outer show and inner life. "A vast machine that has forgotten how to stop working" ; "Bachelor establishments are notoriously comfortable" ; The question of the inner life ; "Do they really drink out of their saucers?' ; "Of alien origin" -- A new Jerusalem. "A new and useful life" ; The housewife militant ; "The change-- it must have been terrible for them" ; The shape of things to come -- "We don't want them days again." "We've moved to the front" ; "I'd never done what I liked-- never in all my life" ; "We like it because the past is not so worrying as the news." | |
| 520 | |a A compassionate and discerning exploration of the complex relationship between the server, the served, and the world they lived in, Servants opens a window onto British society from the Edwardian period to the present. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Household employees |z Great Britain |x Attitudes. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social classes |z Great Britain |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Social conditions |y 20th century. | |
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