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Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper
Tom Quinn
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Description for Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper
Paperback. Insightful and endearing memoir of a life lived in service as a housekeeper at a stately home. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BG; KNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.
Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once school was over - a life in service. She started work in 1925 as a lowly kitchen maid in the London home of Lady Diana Spencer's family. Here she heard tales of the Earl's propensity for setting fire to himself, as well as enjoying the servants' gossip about who was sleeping with whom. The ... Read more
Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once school was over - a life in service. She started work in 1925 as a lowly kitchen maid in the London home of Lady Diana Spencer's family. Here she heard tales of the Earl's propensity for setting fire to himself, as well as enjoying the servants' gossip about who was sleeping with whom. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444735956
SKU
V9781444735956
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About Tom Quinn
Kathleen Clifford was born in a West London slum in 1909. Her family lived from hand to mouth in rented rooms near Paddington Station. At school she dreamed of working in Whiteleys, a glamorous department store, but instead she worked in service. After she retired from service Kathleen returned to Paddington - and got that job in Whiteleys! Kathleen Clifford ... Read more
Reviews for Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper
Praise for the Lives of Servants
Various
Reading this fascinating book is likely to unleash anyone's inner Bolshevik...!
Daily Mail
...a fascinating portrait of the drudgery and servility of a domestic's life.
The Age
...captures the subtelties of the English class system to an extraordinary degree.
Midstate Observer
If the Brothers Grimm ... Read more
Various
Reading this fascinating book is likely to unleash anyone's inner Bolshevik...!
Daily Mail
...a fascinating portrait of the drudgery and servility of a domestic's life.
The Age
...captures the subtelties of the English class system to an extraordinary degree.
Midstate Observer
If the Brothers Grimm ... Read more