Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants by Alison Maloney
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I admit it, I love Downton Abbey. The dichotomy of the leisure class and serving class is just so alien to me. As much as I liked all the Granthams, I found myself more interested in the various servants. It’s just such a weird world. So I did what any highly educated person does when confronted with something strange. I bought a book.

Ok, so in all fairness this is a good little book. It provides an overview of the world and concerns of the edwardian servants. While the author has a modern outlook on the plight of the servant class, she is also pretty realistic about relative opportunities of the time. The whole social landscape was just different.

This is just an overview, but it’s a good one and provides good direction for where to find more information.


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