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Below stairs : the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" / Margaret Powell.
- Description: 212 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
- ISBN: 9781250005441 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1250005442 (hardcover)
Available copies
- 12 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 18 total copies.
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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| Beverly Farms | Adult Nonfiction | TX 649 .P68 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Beverly Main | NEW | TX 649 .P68 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Checked out | 06/05/2013 |
| Danvers | Adult Nonfiction | TX 649 P68 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Gloucester | Adult Nonfiction | 920/POWELL (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Lynnfield | Adult Nonfiction | TX 649 .P68 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Marblehead | Adult New Nonfiction | BIO POWELL, MARGARET 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Marblehead | Adult Biography | BIO POWELL, MARGARET 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Melrose | Biographies (Main Floor) | Biography 641.5092 Powell (Text to phone) | Checked out | 03/08/2013 |
| Melrose | Quick Picks Table (Lobby) | Quick Pick Nonfiction (Text to phone) | Damaged | - |
| Northern Essex - Haverhill Campus | Stacks | TX649.P68 A3 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
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| Summary: | This work is a kitchen-maid's through-the-key hole memoir of life in the great houses of England. At fifteen, she arrived at the servants' entrance to begin her life as a kitchen maid in 1920s England. The lowest of the low, her world was one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5:30 am and went on until after dark. In this memoir, the author tells her tales of service with wit, warmth, and a sharp eye. From the gentleman with a penchant for stroking 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's nephew, this book evokes the long vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs. It is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman, who, though her position was lowly, never stopped aiming high. |
| Notes: | Orignally published: London : Davies, 1968. |
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Powell, Margaret,
1907-1984. Cooks > Great Britain > Biography. Women household employees > England > Biography. Household employees > England > Biography. |
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