New Book - Servants
Latest addition to my library
Lucy Lethbridge Servants : A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain from 2013. I'll share my views and some titbits later.
Here an interview with the author
Visible And Invisible: ‘Servants’ Looks At Life Downstairs
Author Lucy Lethbridge explores the history of British servants through their diaries, letters and memoirs. She says, “What I found particularly fascinating was how ... butlers were so butlery”; the old caricature of the clever manservant and the silly master is one “butlers have appeared to play to…
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