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Country House Life: Family and Servants 1815-1914
Jessica Gerard
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Description for Country House Life: Family and Servants 1815-1914
Hardback. This is an account of the lives of the families and the servants of the British country house from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the onset of the Great War. It is a pioneering history based on contemporary records, diaries, private and public autobiographies, and on the childhood recollections of living descendants. Series: Family, Sexuality & Social Relations in Past Times. Num Pages: 384 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 716.
This is an account of the lives of the families and the servants of the British country house from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the onset of the Great War. It is a pioneering history based on contemporary records, diaries, private and public autobiographies, and on the childhood recollections of living descendants. Never before have the intimacies of life above and below stairs been depicted with such clarity and vividness.
This is an account of the lives of the families and the servants of the British country house from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the onset of the Great War. It is a pioneering history based on contemporary records, diaries, private and public autobiographies, and on the childhood recollections of living descendants. Never before have the intimacies of life above and below stairs been depicted with such clarity and vividness.
Country house family and servants were the two elites of British society and this was the period of their greatest prosperity. They were closely reliant on each ... Read more
The book is illustrated with rare contemporary photographs, is fully referenced, has a wide ranging bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and is comprehensively indexed. Its evocation of a style of life and ways of living that have now largely vanished will be of equal interest to scholar, student and general reader.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
Family, Sexuality & Social Relations in Past Times
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631155669
SKU
V9780631155669
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99-50
About Jessica Gerard
Jessica Gerard was born and grew up in New Zealand where she gained her MA at the University of Canterbury. She received her PhD at the University of London and has since lived in the United States, where she has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Southwest Missouri State University.
Reviews for Country House Life: Family and Servants 1815-1914
"In spite of the number of books on the topic, Jessica Gerard has managed to make an important contribution ..." The American Historical Review "Gerard's account breaks new ground in several ways. It studies the country house as a functioning machine, gives much more attention to upper-class women, explores the relationships between masters and servants and it strikes a nice ... Read more