Upstairs & downstairs : the illustrated guide to the real world of Downton Abbey
Summary
This beautifully illustrated book takes readers on a guided tour of a single day in an upper-crust English home of the Edwardian era. Starting with the servants hard at work while the family is still abed, and culminating in a lavish dinner party, Upstairs & Downstairs lifts the curtain on this fasc... Full description
- Before dawn
- A child's friends : Beatrix Potter
- Breakfast time
- Study of a servant : P.G. Wodehouse
- Morning activities
- Votes for servants : Emmeline Pankhurst
- Lunchtime
- A social conscience : George Bernard Shaw
- Afternoon activities
- Difficult relationships : Virginia Woolf
- Fine dining
- Behind every great man : Winston Churchill
- The end of the day
- Eccentric characters : Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell.