Below Stairs

  • Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"
    By Margaret Powell

    Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powell's classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable ...

  • Below Stairs
    By Margaret Powell

    Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants, Below Stairs is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman, who, though her position was lowly, never stopped aiming high.

  • Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"
    By Margaret Powell

    A best-selling 1968 memoir from the UK chronicles the experiences of a 1920s maid while evoking period dynamics between British masters and servants, in a rerelease of a classic account that inspired two popular television series.

  • Below Stairs
    By Margaret Powell

    Yet from the gentleman with a penchant for stroking the housemaids' curlers, to the heartbreaking story of Agnes the pregnant under-parlourmaid, fired for being seduced by her mistress' nephew, Margaret's tales of her time in service are ...

  • Below Stairs: 400 Years of Servants' Portraits
    By Giles Waterfield, Matthew Craske, Anne French

    Traditionally, British portraits have concentrated on the upper classes and the famous. This book explores the servant, be it in a grand or modest house, in the country or town,...