The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House by Tessa Boase

The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House

Tessa Boase

336 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective sad slow-paced
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Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want - and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs. Hughes was up against capricious m...

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