by Frank Victor Dawes · Pimlico · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780712629812
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«Not in Front of the Servants» is the social history essay by Frank Victor Dawes, published by Pimlico in paperback (184 pages, in English).
It reconstructs the life of domestic service in the great houses of Victorian and Edwardian England. Using interviews, memoirs and letters, it portrays the hierarchy, wages, perks and problems of butlers, cooks and maids, from the huge stately staffs to the single maid of a suburban villa.
It belongs to the National Trust Classics collection and is a revised and expanded edition, with bibliographic references and an index.
For fans of British social history and period dramas such as «Upstairs, Downstairs» and «Downton Abbey».
