Description
Essential household tips from the Victorian era to the modern day - time-honoured, thrifty and environmentally-friendly domestic solutions still useful today
About the Author
Lucy Lethbridge has written for a number of publications and is also the author of several children's books, one of which, Who Was Ada Lovelace?, won the 2002 Blue Peter Award for non-fiction. Servants was published to critical acclaim by Bloomsbury in 2012. She lives in London.
Reviews
Humane, perceptive and dispassionate, Servants takes us more deeply and comprehensively than any previous account into the real world of Upstairs Downstairs -- David Kynaston
What Downtown Abbey will never touch on ... In this excellent addition to the history of domestic service in the 20th century, Lucy Lethbridge has swept the existing archive and added new sources of her own. The result is a richly textured account of what it felt like to spend the decades of high modernity on your knees with a dustpan and brush ... Hugely enjoyable * Guardian *
An enthralling social history of the past century, told through the eyes of those who served ... Here, the voices of servants and home helpers, largely ignored by history, are brought to life. And what a life! ... The book is full of fascinating titbits * Tatler *
A fascinating little book -- Roger Lewis * Daily Mail *
Lucy Lethbridge is a woman after my own heart ... Spit and Polish is packed with time-honoured hints and tips for a spotless home -- Aggie Mackenzie * My Weekly *
Small in size, length, scope and content, but big in charm * Tablet *
Elegant collection of entertaining tips ... fun trivia meant to liven up the mundanity of housework in thought rather than practice * Publisher's Weekly *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408866429
Author Lucy Lethbridge
Format Hardback
Page Count 128
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 336g