It was an interesting history of the help in and around London, England. A bit slow for me. This was a nice easy read. Some parts were slow but for the most part it was interesting.
Margaret Powell's memoir Below Stairs is growing up in a poor in money but rich in love with her family in a small village near London, England and her life in domestic service in the 1920s. It is simply wonderful. Her other memoirs Climbing the Stairs and Servants Hall and her Cookery Book are n...
Below the Stairs is a case of another good book with a very good narrator. Mary Wells provided a great first person narration of this Audible version of the book. Below the Stairs is the memoir of Margaret Powell, a kitchen maid and cook in the 1920’s. Originally published in 1968, Amazon.com ...
This book was disappointing. I thought from the title that it would be a happy story of a lucky servant girl who has a fairy tale romance with someone from "above stairs." Instead, it was merely an opinionated, self absorbed story of the author's own quest for men while bragging about great she i...
One of my history books describes the strike as ‘one of the most controversial and significant events of the inter-war years’, but at the time it made little or no impression or difference to us in domestic service. We had so few free hours outside the basement that our need of transport was mini...
I first went because I had a gastric ulcer. It was in 1944 and there was no National Health Service then. I was suffering from indigestion according to my doctor. I said to him, ‘I can’t understand why I can’t breathe properly.’ But he said it was indigestion and indigesti...