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Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs
Rosina Harrison
Autobiography: general, Prose: non-fiction
First published forty years ago, Gentlemen's Gentlemen gives an insight into the golden age of service - a profession now almost completely lost.
You've read tales of lady's maids and cooks, housekeepers and nannies, but now it's time to hear from the other side of life as a servant. From the lamp boy to the butler, here are the fascinating storis from the men below stairs.
This treasure-trove of memories, collected together by Rosina Harrison, bestselling author of The Lady's Maid, includes the night the ill-fated Edward VIII came to dinner; the time Charlie Chaplin scandalised the servants with his 'familiar' behaviour - and the occasion when a hot potato dropped down a lady's decolletage at a veryexclusive supper party . . .
Praise for Gentlemen's Gentlemen: From Boot Boys to Butlers, True Stories of Life Below Stairs
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Fascinating - Sunday Telegraph
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True and firsthand glimpses of a rich aristocratic life that is now all but dead - Sunday Express
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