The Housekeeper's Tale

The Housekeeper's Tale by Tessa Boase


ISBN
9781781310434
Published
Released
01 / 09 / 2014
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
336
Dimensions
153 x 234mm

The story of The Housekeepers Tale follows the lives of five women to delve into the secret existence of these powerful yet invisible women who ran our great English country houses. 

From the 19th- to the mid 20th-century this was the most important professional job an uneducated woman could aspire to; the female equivalent of the butler. But we know very little about the women who filled these posts.

In the fictional view, the housekeeper was invariably a spinster in black silk: cold, remote and calculating. But what of the real lives? Tessa Boase turns domestic detective to take the reader on a journey of investigation, unearthing secret diaries, bundles of letters and neglected archives from the service wings of great houses the housekeeping accounts, the doctors bills, the shopping lists, the character references. 
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