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The Housekeeper's Tale The Women Who Really Ran
the English Country House
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Working as a housekeeper was one of the most
prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth
century woman could want 8211analso one of the
toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey
fiction, the real life Mrs Hughes was up against
capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security
and gruelling physical labour. Until now, her
story has never been told. The
Housekeeper8217sTale reveals the personal
sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving
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ambition that shaped these women8217scareers.
Delving into secret diaries, unpublished letters
and the neglected service archives of our stately
homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary
stories of five working women who ran some of
Britain8217smost prominent households.There is
Dorothy Doar, Regency housekeeper for the
obscenely wealthy 1st Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. There
is Sarah Wells, a deaf and elderly Victorian in
charge of Uppark, West Sussex. Ellen Penketh is
Edwardian cook-housekeeper at the sociable but
impecunious Erddig Hall in the Welsh
borders. Hannah Mackenzie runs Wrest Park in
Bedfordshire 8211Brtain8217sfirst country-
house war hospital, bankrolled by playwright J.
M. Barrie. And there is Grace Higgens, cook-
housekeeper to the Bloomsbury set at Charleston
farmhouse in East Sussex for half a century
8211an era defined by the Second World
War.Revelatory, gripping and unexpectedly
poignant, The Housekeeper8217sTale champions
the invisible women who ran the English country
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