What the Butler winked at
Subtitle: being the life and adventures of Eric Horne, Butler
Publisher: Westholme Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Yardley, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781594161377
Subjects: Household employees; Conduct of life; Butlers; Biography; Gentry
Description: Eric Horne served as a butler in some of the great English country manors from the 1860s until just after World War I, when many of the families whose heirs died in battle were forced to sell off their homes. This is his autobiography.
Notes: Originally published by T. Werner Laurie, 1923.
Table of contents: title: The big house fifty years ago; title: My mother made me an Eton jacket; title: I go as footman to Eastbourne; title: The baronial household; title: I go back to town; title: Sports in the park; title: Life as a valet; title: His God was his clothes; title: Trials of a butler; title: A tour abroad; title: What servants talk about; title: I become butler to a marquess; title: Service with a Russian princess; title: The value of a kind word; title: A clear conscience.