Upstairs & downstairs : the illustrated guide to the real world of Downton Abbey

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Title:

Upstairs & downstairs : the illustrated guide to the real world of Downton Abbey

Author:

Warwick, Sarah.

Personal Author:

Warwick, Sarah.

Publication Information:

London : Carlton Books, 2012.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Summary:

This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a guided tour of a single day in an upper-crust English home of the Edwardian era. Starting with the servants hard at work while the family is still abed, and culminating in a lavish dinner party, Upstairs & Downstairs lifts the curtain on this fascinating period, as well as its historical bookends, the Victorian and post-World War I eras. Includes accounts from actual masters and servants, along with feature spreads on famous figures.--From publisher description.

General Note:

Includes index.

"First published in 2011 by Carlton Books Ltd"--T.p. verso.

Language:

English

Contents:

Before dawn -- A child's friends : Beatrix Potter -- Breakfast time -- Study of a servant : P.G. Wodehouse -- Morning activities -- Votes for servants : Emmeline Pankhurst -- Lunchtime -- A social conscience : George Bernard Shaw -- Afternoon activities -- Difficult relationships : Virginia Woolf -- Fine dining -- Behind every great man : Winston Churchill -- The end of the day -- Eccentric characters : Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell.

Subject Term:

Household employees -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

Household employees -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Country homes -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

Upper class -- England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910.

Added Uniform Title:

Downton Abbey (Television program)

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