Download or read book The Duties of a Lady s Maid written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lady s Maid written by Margaret Forster and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.”—Booklist Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady’s maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress’ s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years. It is Lily who smuggles Miss Barrett out of the gloomy Wimpole Street house, witnesses her secret wedding to Robert Browning in an empty church, and flees with them to threadbare lodgings and the heat, light, and colors of Italy. As housekeeper, nursemaid, companion, and confidante, Lily is with Elizabeth in every crisis–birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lily’s own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given. Praise for Lady's Maid “[A] wonderful novel . . . fully imagined and persuasive fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing . . . heartbreaking . . . grips the reader's imagination on every page . . . [Margaret] Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Extremely readable . . . The author's sense of the nineteenth century seems innate.”—The New Yorker “Highly recommended . . . an engrossing novel of the colorful Browning ménage.”—Library Journal “Delightful . . . entertaining.”—Vogue
Download or read book The Duties of a Lady s Maid Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Lady s Maid s Bell written by Edith Wharton and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT was the autumn after I had the typhoid. I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me. Most of my money was gone, and after I'd boarded for two months, hanging about the employment-agencies, and answering any advertisement that looked any way respectable, I pretty nearly lost heart, for fretting hadn't made me fatter, and I didn't see why my luck should ever turn. It did though—or I thought so at the time. A Mrs. Railton, a friend of the lady that first brought me out to the States, met me one day and stopped to speak to me: she was one that had always a friendly way with her. She asked me what ailed me to look so white, and when I told her, "Why, Hartley," says she, "I believe I've got the very place for you. Come in to-morrow and we'll talk about it."
Download or read book The Lady s Maid written by Rosina Harrison and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1929, Yorkshire lass Rosina Harrison became personal maid to Lady Astor: the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat and wife of one of England's wealthiest lords. Lady Astor was brilliant yet tempestuous, but outspoken Rose gave as good as she got. For 35 years, the battle of wills and wits raged between the two women, until an unlikely friendship began to emerge. "The Lady's Maid" is a captivating insight into the great wealth 'upstairs' but also the endless work 'downstairs', but it is Rose's unique relationship with Lady Astor that makes this book a truly enticing read"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The Lady s Maid written by Dilly Court and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. As the years have passed, Kate has grown up knowing only poverty and servitude, whilst Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have been friends since childhood. But their past binds them together in ways they must never know. Until a chance meeting forces Kate and Josie to confront the truth of that night nearly twenty years before - a truth that turns both worlds upside down and threatens to destroy their friendship forever. . .
Download or read book Pocket Guide to Edwardian England written by Evangeline Holland and published by Evangeline Holland. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from lectures and blog posts on Edwardian Promenade, the Pocket Guide to Edwardian England poses to give a fun, frothy, but thorough look at the time period made popular by Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs! From the royal family of Edward VII to the working class, to the servants who toiled in great country houses and their masters, to the mighty politicians and their goals. For anyone wanting a short and concise, yet deeply engrossing look at this opulent era, Pocket Guide to Edwardian England is just book to take you away.
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Download or read book The Lady s Maid written by Lady and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...in calculations--Bribery on the part of trades-people--From whose pocket the bribe is taken--Course to be adopted when bribes are offered--Have no dealings with those who offer bribes--Consideration to be shown to tradespeople, and how--Hardships suffered by dressmakers, etc.--Pressure unadvisable even for mourning--Timely notice saves hurry and pressure--Gossip about the family to be avoided--Gossip about those in a higher position than ourselves too general in England--Gossip generally originates with servants. N the course of your service, you will have a good deal to do with your lady's tradespeople. At first, you will be employed to convey orders to them, which will be good practice in the art of carrying messages. You will also have some easy shopping to do; to match ribbons, and buy sewing-silks, tapes, linings for gowns, and such things, in which it is not easy to make mistakes. Begin carefully and well, that you may become qualified for the more important shopping that will be a part of your duty hereafter. Have a neat bonnet and shawl or cloak ready to be put on quickly when you are sent out. Make sure what sort of things you are to get, --whether the sewing-silk is to be coarse or fine; what breadth the tape is to be; how much a yard you may give for the ribbon; and so on. If your employer should think you rather particular about your orders, she will soon find that this is better than bringing home articles which cannot be used. If you are troubled with a bad memory, you will make a list of what you have to buy, and carry a pencil, that you may set down at the moment what you pay for each, if they are trifles too small to be put into a bill. The most satisfactory way, however, is to have a bill made out to bring home with you....
Download or read book The Lady s Maid written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiercely dependent on her identity as a lady’s maid, a woman relates her experiences and ambitions, and the paths that her vocation has taken her down in this dramatic monologue. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
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Download or read book Cassell s Household Guide Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy Etc written by Cassell & Company and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
