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Author : Octave Mirbeau
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Diary of a Lady's-maid written by Octave Mirbeau and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma Southgate
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
ISBN 13 : 9780522846980
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Lady's Maid written by Emma Southgate and published by Melbourne University Publish. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very busy day. Lord and Lady Carrington arrived from England. Miss Harbord, 3 Gentlemen in Suite, 3 children, two nurses, two maids, 2 valets. Every room occupied. 47 to dinner-in State dining room-and 500 in the evening. All went off capitally. We got to bed soon after 2 a.m.' The reliable, hard-working and loyal Emma Southgate began her diary when she journeyed across rough seas and under stormy skies from England to Australia in 1884. She travelled as lady's maid to Lady Loch, wife of the newly appointed Governor of Victoria. When they arrived in Melbourne and took up residence in the magnificent Government House, Emma had the presence of mind to continue her record of daily life. The legacy of her diligence is published here for the first time. Through Emma's words we can relive the halcyon days of colonial times: sumptuous parties in elegant ballrooms and receptions on rolling lawns; stylish travel through the colonies of Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and South Australia; holidays in a grand home at Mount Macedon; important international visitors; and the social whirl that accompanied occasions such as Melbourne Cup week. These events are charmingly described in Emma's diaries from a behind-the-scenes point of view-the weariness of having to serve tea to thousands of 'ladies and gentlemen', visits to the poor and excursions to the beach, illnesses among staff and the kindnesses of her employers. Emma's authentic evocation of her life sparkles. Unpretentious and forthright, Emma's words captivate the reader as they bring to life the people, the places and the times. Besides Emma's accounts, Helen Vellacott has placed the newspaper reports of the day that show the official view-often quite different from Emma's observations. In this way, and with intriguing additional comment and information, Diary of a Lady's Maid gives us an insight into early Australian society.
Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307823024
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Lady's Maid written by Margaret Forster and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.”—Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady’s maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress’ s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years. It is Lily who smuggles Miss Barrett out of the gloomy Wimpole Street house, witnesses her secret wedding to Robert Browning in an empty church, and flees with them to threadbare lodgings and the heat, light, and colors of Italy. As housekeeper, nursemaid, companion, and confidante, Lily is with Elizabeth in every crisis–birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lily’s own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given. Praise for Lady's Maid “[A] wonderful novel . . . fully imagined and persuasive fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . heartbreaking . . . grips the reader's imagination on every page . . . [Margaret] Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Extremely readable . . . The author's sense of the nineteenth century seems innate.”—The New Yorker “Highly recommended . . . an engrossing novel of the colorful Browning ménage.”—Library Journal “Delightful . . . entertaining.”—Vogue
Author : coolkyousinnjya
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 1645051404
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary Vol. 2 written by coolkyousinnjya and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a harmony dragon has nothing on the challenges of office work! From learning how to make box lunches to surviving all-out ramen battles, Elma is finding life as an office lady in Japan to be delicious. But when her office is reorganized, can she rise to the challenge--and should she even try?
Author : Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Diary of a Lady-in-waiting written by Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Auguste Schlüter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book A Lady's Maid in Downing Street written by Auguste Schlüter and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1413736076
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Diary of a Scullery Maid written by Joe Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the story opens and closes in present-day Spain, the real beginnings are set in the early 1900s when, in Africa, the well-equipped army of the British Empire was being humbled by a few Boer farmers whose only uniform was a slouch hat and a bandolier over everyday work clothes. In England, with the wealth of the aristocracy in decline, Lord and Lady Blanchford-Carter decided to augment their dwindling finances by transforming part of their stately mansion into a high-class brothel for the upper echelons of society. Into this strange household came the young and innocent Helen Sarsfield to commence employment as a scullery maid. In Ireland, Helen's twin brother enlisted in the Connaught Rangers, and would soon depart for Africa, leaving behind his sweetheart in an Ireland rife with talks of insurrection; a place where James Connolly was reminding people that England's difficulty was Ireland's opportunity.
Author : Tim Tate
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782196102
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Diamonds at Dinner - My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home written by Tim Tate and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating memoir of life as a lady's maid in a big house in the 1930s, covering the beauty of the house, the housing of royals escaping the Nazis, the hard work of staff, and the experience of joining the army to serve a Countess Hilda Newman was a maid to Lady Coventry at the Worcestershire stately home of Croome Court in the 1930s. In her fascinating memoir of life below the stairs (as well as glimpses from inside the big house), she reveals what it was like living and working in the 18th Century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by parkland landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown. During World War II Croome Court housed the exiled Dutch Royal Family, who escaped the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. It was also the top-secret RAF base Defford, where radar was developed and repairs were carried out on aircraft fighting in the Battle of Britain. Hilda remembers life both upstairs and down, from the grand long gallery designed by Robert Adam and the tapestry room (since removed and transferred to the Metropolitan Museum in New York), to the hard labor demanded of serving staff and what it was like in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the women's branch of the British Army, which she joined to serve the Countess in 1940.
Author : W. M. Thackeray
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752563311
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)
Download or read book The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush, and the Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq. written by W. M. Thackeray and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Memoirs of Mr. Charl. J. Yellowplush, and the Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. N. Williamson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Motor Maid written by C. N. Williamson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Motor Maid" is a last-century novel about where women who have just started to break the societal norms and manners and embrace the opportunities of the new age. The author of this book, Alice Williamson, wrote books in cooperation with her husband, Charles. Together they were fond of the first motorcars and motorsport, so this topic found numerous reflections in their novels. The heroine of this book is a young lady obsessed with driving, yet being a rare woman in this sport is a real challenge.
Author : Coolkyousinnjya
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1648272320
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's Office Lady Diary Vol. 5 written by Coolkyousinnjya and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEED YOUR BLISS! Elma is a sweet, gluttonous, and occasionally airheaded harmony dragon who works with Miss Kobayashi. Follow Elma’s busy career as she helps train a new employee, gets turned into a baby (thanks, Lucoa!), and as always, eats lots and lots of tasty food. You’ll want to feed Elma yourself in this spin-off of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid!
Author : Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Weird Women written by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Yellowplush Papers Etc written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Prose Works of William Makepeace Thackeray written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Experiment in Autobiography; Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866) written by H. G. Wells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Experiment in Autobiography; Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866)" by H. G. Wells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Total Pages : 658 pages
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