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Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781445618982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Life Below Stairs written by Pamela Horn and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real lives of servants in the second half of the twentieth century.
Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445619105
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, 1939 to the Present written by Pamela Horn and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real lives of servants in the second half of the twentieth century.
Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445615789
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939 written by Pamela Horn and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating glimpse of life below stairs, This book tells the stories of the lives the people who lived and worked there.
Author : Beverley Skeggs
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1526455722
Total Pages : 1684 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Marxism written by Beverley Skeggs and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 1684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Marxism both within and without the academy. Marxian frameworks, concepts and categories continue to be narratively relevant to the features and events of contemporary capitalism. Most crucially, an attention to shifting cultural conditions has lead contemporary researchers to re-confront some classical and essential Marxist concepts, as well as elaborating new critical frameworks for the analysis of capitalism today. The SAGE Handbook of Marxism showcases this cutting-edge of today’s Marxism. It advances the debate with essays that rigorously map and renew the concepts that have provided the groundwork and main currents for Marxist theory, and showcases interventions that set the agenda for Marxist research in the 21st century. A rigorous and challenging collection of scholarship, this book contains a stunning range of contributions from contemporary academics, writers and theorists from around the world and across disciplines, invaluable to scholars and graduate students alike. Part 1: Reworking the critique of political economy Part 2: Forms of domination, subjects of struggle Part 3: Political perspectives Part 4: Philosophical dimensions Part 5: Land and existence Part 6: Domains Part 7: Inquiries and debates
Author : Diana I. Ríos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793613532
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Television Dramas and the Global Village written by Diana I. Ríos and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexualities, race, cultural values, political systems, and religious beliefs as they analyze how these programs allow us to indulge our innate desire to share human narratives in a way that binds us together and encourages audiences to persevere as a community on a global scale. Contributors also go on to explore the role of television dramas as a medium that indulges fantasies and escapism and reckons with reality as it allows audiences to experience emotions of happiness, sorrow, fear, and outrage in both realistic and fantastical scenarios.
Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 144473587X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Maid's Tale written by Tom Quinn and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Lives of the Servants: ‘Reading this fascinating book is likely to unleash almost anyone’s Inner Bolshevik...!' Daily Mail ‘...a fascinating portrait of the drudgery and servility of a domestic's life.' The Age ‘...captures the subtleties of the English class system to an extraordinary degree.' Midstate Observer 'If the Brothers Grimm had ended Cinderella where she was being forced to clean the house by her stepsisters, they might have accidentally been writing Rose Plummer's biography. The maid's story makes for harsh, heartbreaking, fascinating reading.’ The Daily Telegraph, NZ Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum, where she and fought an unending battle with hunger and squalor. At the age of fifteen, Rose started work as a live-in maid, and despite the poverty of her childhood, nothing could have prepared her for the long hours, the backbreaking work and the harshness of a world in which servants were treated as if they were less than human. But however difficult life became, Rose found something to laugh about, and her remarkable spirit and gift for friendship shines through in her memories of a now-vanished world.
Author : Margaret Powell
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 142995244X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Below Stairs written by Margaret Powell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powell's classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped aiming high. Powell first arrived at the servants' entrance of one of those great houses in the 1920s. As a kitchen maid – the lowest of the low – she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5.30am and went on until after dark. It was a far cry from her childhood on the beaches of Hove, where money and food were scarce, but warmth and laughter never were. Yet from the gentleman with a penchant for stroking the housemaids' curlers, to raucous tea-dances with errand boys, to the heartbreaking story of Agnes the pregnant under-parlormaid, fired for being seduced by her mistress's nephew, Margaret's tales of her time in service are told with wit, warmth, and a sharp eye for the prejudices of her situation. Margaret Powell's true story of a life spent in service is a fascinating "downstairs" portrait of the glittering, long-gone worlds behind the closed doors of Downton Abbey and 165 Eaton Place.
Author : Margaret Powell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250029295
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Servants' Hall written by Margaret Powell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of accounts about life in the servants' halls of England's great houses shares the true story of under-parlourmaid Rose, who after eloping with her employer's only son was swept up in a maelstrom of gossip.
Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848688124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Life Below Stairs in the Twentieth Century written by Pamela Horn and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating glimpse of life below stairs, This book tells the stories of the lives the people who lived and worked there.
Author : Alison Maloney
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250023122
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Life Below Stairs written by Alison Maloney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPSTAIRS, an Edwardian home would have been a picture of elegance and calm, adorned with social gatherings and extravagantly envisioned dinner parties. DOWNSTAIRS, it was a hive of domestic activity, supported by a body of staff painstakingly devoted to ensuring the smooth running of the household. Brimming with family secrets, society scandal, and of course elaborate parties, dresses, and social customs, the world of an aristocratic Edwardian household as depicted on the hit show Downton Abbey has captivated millions. But what was life really like for the people who kept such a household running: the servants? In Life Below Stairs, international bestselling author Alison Maloney takes readers behind the scenes to reveal a lively and colorful picture of what went on "downstairs," describing servants' daily life in this now-vanished world. Detailing everything from household structure, pay and conditions, special duties, and rules and regulations, to perks, entertainment, and even romance, Maloney examines the drudgery and hardships below stairs, as well as the rewards and pleasures. Thoroughly researched and reliably informed, this charmingly illustrated volume also contains first-hand stories from the staff of the time, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the lifestyle and conduct of a bygone era.
Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786948346
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Journeys from the Abyss written by Tony Kushner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to place Jewish refugee movements from Nazism into a wider framework of global forced migration from the late nineteenth through to the twenty first century.
Author : Lucy Delap
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199572941
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Knowing Their Place written by Lucy Delap and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing Their Place offers a fascinating look at the relationships of antagonism and friendship, disgust and desire, that marked domestic service in twentieth century Britain.
Author : Margaret Powell
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330535380
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Below Stairs written by Margaret Powell and published by Pan. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about to begin... As a kitchen maid - the lowest of the low - she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5.30am and went on until after dark. It was a far cry from her childhood on the beaches of Hove, where money and food were scarce, but warmth and laughter never were. Yet from the gentleman with a penchant for stroking the 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 nephew, Margaret's tales of her time in service are told with wit, warmth, and a sharp eye for the prejudices of her situation. Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants, Below Stairs is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman, who, though her position was lowly, never stopped aiming high.
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Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 9781444735864
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The Maid's Tale written by and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum; she knew at first hand a soot-blackened world, lit by candles and oil lamps, where you slept in your clothes - if you hadn't already been sewn into them for the winter - and fought an unending battle with hunger and bed bugs. At its best, life was lived on the bustling, noisy streets where fish sellers jostled with hurdy-gurdy men, organ grinders and street fighters, where children dodged between the wheels of horse-drawn carts and where money could still be made by mudlarks and the rag and bone man. At the age of fifteen, Rose left the noise and squalor of Hoxton and started work as a live-in maid at a house in the West End. Despite the poverty of her childhood, nothing could have prepared her for the long hours, the backbreaking work and the harshness of this new world; a world in which servants were treated as if they were less than human. It was a world in which Rose found herself working from six in the morning till nine at night in a house where the only unheated bedroom was the one she slept in. Here and in later, grander, houses Rose had to endure the strict hierarchy of the servants' world where the maid was expected to put up with sex pests, deranged employers, verbal and even physical abuse. But however difficult life became, Rose found something to laugh about, and her remarkable spirit and gift for friendship shines through in her memories of a now-vanished world. This is upstairs downstairs as it really was. Part of the Lives of Servants series. Other titles in the series are: The Cook's Tale, They Also Serve and Cocoa at Midnight.
Author : Frank Victor Dawes
Publisher : Wayland (Publishers) Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Not in Front of the Servants written by Frank Victor Dawes and published by Wayland (Publishers) Limited. This book was released on 1973 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Barrow
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Women, 1870-1928 written by Margaret Barrow and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1981 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicola Humble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857854755
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Literature of Food written by Nicola Humble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between two sorts of foods: the real and the imagined. Focusing particularly on Britain and North America from the early 19th century to the present, it covers a wide range of issues including the politics of food, food as performance, and its intersections with gender, class, fear and disgust. Combining the insights of food studies and literary analysis, Nicola Humble considers the multifarious ways in which food both works and plays within texts, and the variety of functions-ideological, mimetic, symbolic, structural, affective-which it serves. Carefully designed and structured for use on the growing number of literature of food courses, it examines the food of modernism, post-modernism, the realist novel and children's literature, and asks what happens when we treat cook books as literary texts. From food memoirs to the changing role of the servant, experimental cook books to the cannibalistic fears in infant picture books, The Literature of Food demonstrates that food is always richer and stranger than we think.
