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Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain

Autor Lucy Lethbridge
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 sep 2013
'Hugely enjoyable' - Kathryn Hughes, GuardianGlorious ... Full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes' - Daily TelegraphServants is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the footman, the maid and the cook of 1900 to the au pairs, cleaners and childminders who took their place seventy years later, a previously unheard class offers a fresh perspective on a dramatic century. Here, the voices of servants and domestic staff are at last brought to life: their daily household routines, attitudes towards their employers, and to each other, throw into sharp and intimate relief the period of feverish social change through which they lived. Sweeping in its scope, extensively researched and brilliantly observed, Servants is an original and fascinating portrait of twentieth-century Britain; an authoritative history that will change and challenge the way we look at society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408842706
ISBN-10: 140884270X
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The enduring popularity of various BBC dramas, including Servants, Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey, testifies to the enduring commercial potential of the subject and the period as a whole. Likewise, the success of The Help should demonstrate the widespread interest in well-researched social portraits of Britain's classes

Notă biografică

Lucy Lethbridge has written for a number of publications and is also the author of several children's books, one of which, Who Was Ada Lovelace?, won the 2002 Blue Peter Award for non-fiction. She is the author of Spit and Polish (2016) and Tourists, published to critical acclaim in 2022. She lives in London.

Recenzii

Hugely enjoyable ... a richly textured account of what it felt like to spend the decades of high modernity on your knees with a dustpan and brush ... an excellent addition to the history of domestic service in the 20th century ... Where Servants excels is in describing those placed where the older paradigms of domestic service, inherited from the late 19th century, began to break down
Delightfully well-written ... scrupulously even-handed ... Hats off to Lethbridge for so touchingly and comprehensively chronicling those lives that history, like the snootiest of employers, has neglected for so long
Glorious ... Full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes. But what is most fascinating is Lethbridge's account of the dark side of the master-servant relationship
Beautifully written, sparkling with insight, and a pleasure to read, Servants is social history at its most humane and perceptive. In broad terms, the world Lethbridge describes is a familiar one, but she nails it all down with the kind of detail that still has the power to astonish, outrage or amuse
Scholarly, thorough and vastly entertaining ... Lethbridge's style is elegant, detached and slyly witty, and her canvas sprawling and immense
Enthusiasts of bonnets and waistcoats will find Upstairs Downstairs or Downton Abbey all the more enjoyable after reading this nuanced and elegantly written account of the wider context. And in tracing the history of servants throughout the whole of the 20th century, Lethbridge offers a new vantage point from which to reassess British social history
Humane, perceptive and dispassionate, Servants takes us more deeply and comprehensively than any previous account into the real world of Upstairs Downstairs
Absorbing ... Lethbridge enables us to hear the voices of her subjects; she skilfully interweaves written and oral testimony ... Empathetic, wide-ranging and well-written
Engrossing
Enlightening and elegantly written social history
Enthralling ... Lethbridge shows that the history of life below stairs is just as interesting as the story of life above them
Excellent social history ... Anyone who longs to believe Downton Abbey's comforting portrayal of life below stairs will emerge from its pages disabused of such sentimental notions
Thoroughly researched and tremendously entertaining ... Illustrated with a host of terrific anecdotes
Meticulously researched ... It makes a grand sweep, covering a rich swathe of social history which Lethbridge unpicks with delicacy, humanity and humour ... Lethbridge shows how complex and varied the relationship between servant and master could be
Comprehensively reached and charmingly engaging, Servants is a sensitive, humane and penetrating insight into British society
Absorbing history ... Telling their story so fully and humanely
Fascinating
The stories are reminiscent of below-stairs life as depicted in TV's Downton Abbey
Neither snobbish nor socialist, Lethbridge has produced a sympathetic and affectionate study, laced with invigorating anecdotes
By no means the standard Downton Abbey cash-in. Instead, a brilliantly researched and often eye-opening account of twentieth-century life below stairs
Excellent, thoroughly researched
Comprehensive