Mar 1, 2013 · This was a nonfiction book on the lives of servants, maids, gardeners, butlers, valets, and a cast of other characters who worked in the houses of rich folk (mainly in England) during the Edwardian era (circa 1890) to the 1950s or thereabouts.

Red Queen is a young adult dystopian fantasy romance novel written by American writer Victoria Aveyard. [1] Published in February 2015, it was her first novel and first series. [2] [3] Aveyard followed up with three sequels: Glass Sword, King's Cage and War Storm. [4]

Nov 18, 2013 · Lethbridge explores the culture of 20th-century British domestic service workers, the families that employed them, and the practice's sudden collapse after WWII.

These books hold a wealth of information, recipes and first hand accounts about and by servants (Mainly British). The list includes historical works and studies and a few modern royal household memoirs.

The Red Book of Westmarch (sometimes the Thain's Book [T 1] after its principal version) is a fictional manuscript written by hobbits, related to the author J. R. R. Tolkien's frame stories. It is an instance of the found manuscript literary device, [ 1 ] to explain the source of his legendarium .

Books shelved as servants: Longbourn by Jo Baker, The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, Below Stairs by Margaret Powell, The Kitchen House by Kathleen Gr...

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice 'Beautifully written, sparkling with insight, and a pleasure to read, Servants is social history at its most humane and perceptive.' —Paul Addison, Times Literary Supplement , Servants, A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times, Lucy Lethbridge, 9780393349801

Feb 26, 2020 · In some occasions, Austen uses servants to advance or alter the course of the story or even deliver the odd red herring. In Sense and Sensibility , a servant unwittingly causes a fair deal of despair amongst his mistresses when he tells the Dashwood ladies that Mr Ferrars is …

Two of the most prominent figures of evil during the events of the Lord of the Rings are The Dark Lord Sauron and the Wizard Saruman. Both of these figures were once servants of the Vala Aulë. Is...