The Maid's Tale
The remarkable true story of one English maid's life below stairs
$35.70
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
12 December 2011
Summary
Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum. At the age of fifteen, she left the noise and squalor of Hoxton and started work as a live-in maid at a house in the West End. Despite the poverty of her childhood, nothing could have prepared her for the long hours, the backbreaking work, and the harshness of this new world; a world that saw servants as almost less than human. This is her story.
‘They thought they owned us body and soul - and they did. We weren’t allowed to spea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444735864 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444735861 |
| Author: | Tom Quinn, Rose Plummer |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 12 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 20mm |
| Series: | True Stories of Life Below Stairs |
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About The Author
Tom Quinn
Rose Plummer was born in 1910 in Hoxton, one of the poorest parts of London’s East End. She left school at fifteen and became a live-in domestic servant in a house in the West End. For the next fifteen years she saw at first-hand what life below stairs was really like. She met her future husband Harry, a footman, just before the start of the Second World War and though there were no children they enjoyed a long and happy marriage. After the war Rose had a number of jobs, but never again in domestic service. She died in 1994.
Tom Quinn is the editor of the Country Landowner’s Magazine. He has written several small books for small independent publishers. He has spent the last twenty years interviewing people who worked in domestic service, getting them to tell him their life stories.
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