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Country House Life Family and Servants 1815-1914
(Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past
Times)
Sinopsis
This is an account of the lives of the families
and the servants of the British country
house from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the
onset of the Great War. It is a pioneering
history based on contemporary records, diaries,
private and public autobiographies, and on the
childhood recollections of living descendants.
Never before have the intimacies of life above
and below stairs been depicted with such clarity
and vividness. Country house family and servants
were the two elites of British society and this
was the period of their greatest prosperity.
They were closely reliant on each other. 'Our
servants and we are all members of a large
family, who cannot get on independently of each
other,' Lady Jenne wrote in 1892. The
omnipresence of the servants affected every
aspect of the family's behavior and the family
shared the lives of the servants the country
house was a community. The power base of the
nation's political establishment, it was also
home - a tangible symbol of lineage, permanence
and stability, embodying in its fabric,
decoration and ritual the accumulations and
memories of successive generations.The book is
illustrated with rare contemporary photographs,
is fully referenced, has a wide ranging
bibliography of primary and secondary sources,
and is comprehensively indexed. Its evocation of
a style of life and ways of living that have now
largely vanished will be of equal interest to
scholar, student and general reader.
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(Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past
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