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100 1 $aPowell, Margaret,$d1907-1984.
245 10 $aBelow stairs :$bthe classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired Upstairs, downstairs and Downton Abbey /$cMargaret Powell.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2012.
300 $a212 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aOrignally published: London : Davies, 1968.
520 $aThis work is a kitchen-maid's through-the-key hole memoir of life in the great houses of England. At fifteen, she arrived at the servants' entrance to begin her life as a kitchen maid in 1920s England. The lowest of the low, her world was one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5:30 am and went on until after dark. In this memoir, the author tells her tales of service with wit, warmth, and a sharp eye. From the gentleman with a penchant for stroking housemaids' curlers, to raucous tea dances with errand boys, to the heartbreaking story of Agnes the pregnant under-parlourmaid, fired for being seduced by her mistress's nephew, this book evokes the long vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs. This is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman, who, though her position was lowly, never stopped aiming high.
600 10 $aPowell, Margaret,$d1907-1984.
650 0 $aCooks$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.$2bisacsh
852 00 $bmil$hTX649.P68$iA3 2012