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Up and down stairs : the history of the country house servant / Jeremy Musson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : John Murray, 2009.Description: vii, 374 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm ; pbkContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 184854300X
  • 9781848543003
  • 9781848543003:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 640.460942
Contents:
The visible and glorious household : from the late Middle Ages to the end of the sixteenth century -- The beginning of the back stairs and the servants' hall : the seventeenth century -- The household in the age of conspicuous consumption : the eighteenth century -- Behind the green baize door : the eighteenth century -- The apogee : the nineteenth century -- Moving up or moving on : the nineteenth century -- In retreat from a golden age : the first half of the twentieth century -- Staying on : a changing world : the later twentieth century.
Summary: A history that brings to live the real country house servants. From the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, this is a fascinating history of country house servants. Brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how it was sometimes broken.
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General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 640.460942 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 80502

CW067

CW098

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The visible and glorious household : from the late Middle Ages to the end of the sixteenth century -- The beginning of the back stairs and the servants' hall : the seventeenth century -- The household in the age of conspicuous consumption : the eighteenth century -- Behind the green baize door : the eighteenth century -- The apogee : the nineteenth century -- Moving up or moving on : the nineteenth century -- In retreat from a golden age : the first half of the twentieth century -- Staying on : a changing world : the later twentieth century.

A history that brings to live the real country house servants. From the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, this is a fascinating history of country house servants. Brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how it was sometimes broken.

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