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Book Title
Maid's Tale : a Revealing Memoir of Life below Stairs
Publication Name
The Maid's Tale
Title
The Maid's Tale
Subtitle
A revealing memoir of life below stairs
Author
Rose Plummer
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1444735861
EAN
9781444735864
ISBN
9781444735864
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Release Date
15/09/2011
Release Year
2011
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
7.7in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.1 Oz
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General, Women's Studies, Sociology / Urban
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum; she knew at first hand a soot-blackened world, lit by candles and oil lamps, where you slept in your clothes - if you hadn't already been sewn into them for the winter - and fought an unending battle with hunger and bed bugs. At its best, life was lived on the bustling, noisy streets where fish sellers jostled with hurdy-gurdy men, organ grinders and street fighters, where children dodged between the wheels of horse-drawn carts and where money could still be made by mudlarks and the rag and bone man. At the age of fifteen, Rose left the noise and squalor of Hoxton and started work as a live-in maid at a house in the West End. Despite the poverty of her childhood, nothing could have prepared her for the long hours, the backbreaking work and the harshness of this new world; a world in which servants were treated as if they were less than human. It was a world in which Rose found herself working from six in the morning till nine at night in a house where the only unheated bedroom was the one she slept in. Here and in later, grander, houses Rose had to endure the strict hierarchy of the servants' world where the maid was expected to put up with sex pests, deranged employers, verbal and even physical abuse. But however difficult life became, Rose found something to laugh about, and her remarkable spirit and gift for friendship shines through in her memories of a now-vanished world. This is upstairs downstairs as it really was. Part of the Lives of Servants series. Other titles in the series are: The Cook's Tale, They Also Serve and Cocoa at Midnight.

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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-10
1444735861
ISBN-13
9781444735864
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117155391

Product Key Features

Book Title
Maid's Tale : a Revealing Memoir of Life below Stairs
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General, Women's Studies, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Tx334.1
Grade from
College Freshman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Copyright Date
2011
As Told by
Quinn, Tom
Dewey Decimal
640.46092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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