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Upstairs & Downstairs: The Illustrated Guide To The Real Life Of Masters And Their Servants From The Victorian Era To The Second World War (2012)

by Sarah Warwick(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1847327907 (ISBN13: 9781847327901)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Carlton Books

review 1: Very interesting. If you enjoy Downton Abbey this explains what the lives of the servants would have really been. It was a hard, sad life. And oddly enough, even those who stood up for servants and women's rights had a full staff of servants themselves. This book had a lot of information spread out with enough pictures to be really enjoyable. It'll make me watch Downton Abbey with a different eye.
review 2: Where I got the book: my local library.A somewhat entertaining Day in the Life of an Edwardian Household, which appears to have been put together in haste to cash in on the Downton Abbey craze. This is the kind of book where the photographs matter as much as the text, and while some of the images were enlightening, some were just so way off base as to be rid... moreiculous - I particularly remember one of a butler serving a woman in bed, all too obviously culled from a 1930s Hollywood movie. She's wearing makeup, and he's a butler in a lady's bedroom. GET A CLUE.The one spread I really enjoyed was the enumeration of the different ranks of servant. Otherwise, this is not one I'd buy. less

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