The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
by
Tessa Boase
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want – and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and gruelling...