An edition of Up and down stairs
(2009)
Up and down stairs
the history of the country house servant
by Jeremy Musson
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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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Household employees, History, Country homes, Herrenhaus, Angestellter, Literary collectionsPlaces
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Up and down stairs: the history of the country house servant
2009, John Murray
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184854300X 9781848543003
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Table of Contents
1. Visible and Glorious Household: From the later Middle Ages to the end of the Sixteenth Century
2. Beginning of the Back Stairs and the Servants' Hall: The Seventeenth Century
3. Household in the Age of Conspicuous Consumption: The Eighteenth Century
4. Behind the Green Baize Door: The Eighteenth Century
5. Apogee: The Nineteenth Century
6. Moving Up or Moving On: The Nineteenth Century
7. In Retreat from a Golden Age: The first half of the Twentieth century
8. Staying On: A Changing World: The later Twentieth Century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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