Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times

by Lucy Lethbridge

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From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate to the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house, domestics were an essential yet unobtrusive part of the British hierarchy for much of the past century, required to tread softly and blend into the background. Lucy Lethbridge's Servants gives them a voice in this discerning portrait of the complex relationship between the server, the served, and the world they lived in, opening a window on British society from the Edwardian period to the present.

  • ISBN10 0393349802
  • ISBN13 9780393349801
  • Publish Date 2 December 2014 (first published 14 March 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 416
  • Language English