Up and down stairs
Subtitle: the history of the country house servant
By: Jeremy Musson
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781848543003
Subjects: Household employees; History; Country homes; Herrenhaus; Angestellter
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Visible and Glorious Household: From the later Middle Ages to the end of the Sixteenth Century; title: 2. Beginning of the Back Stairs and the Servants' Hall: The Seventeenth Century; title: 3. Household in the Age of Conspicuous Consumption: The Eighteenth Century; title: 4. Behind the Green Baize Door: The Eighteenth Century; title: 5. Apogee: The Nineteenth Century; title: 6. Moving Up or Moving On: The Nineteenth Century; title: 7. In Retreat from a Golden Age: The first half of the Twentieth century; title: 8. Staying On: A Changing World: The later Twentieth Century.