Full name: What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem

Author: E. S. Turner Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780141390833 0141390832

This is a lively foray into a world where a gentleman with £2,000 a year was betraying his class if he did not employ six females and five males; where a lady could go to the grave without ever having picked up a nightdress, carried her prayer book or made a pot of tea. It is the story of the housekeeper and the butler, the cook, the lady's maid, the valet and the coachman. Their duties are described in detail, and the story is told of the strife and even pitched battles that ensued between servants and the served. Here is social history from a fascinating angle, packed with droll information lightly handled, with many a moral for our own times. Similar books: If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer The Long Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar Oh, Yikes! by Joy Masoff Love Stories by Jonathan Ned Katz 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley The Making of Home by Judith Flanders 1939 by Anne de Courcy A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey Catastrophe by David Keys Napoleon's Privates by Tony Perrottet Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer