Longbourn: a novel of pride and prejudice below stairs
Baker, Jo
Longbourn: a novel of pride and prejudice below stairs - Doubleday 2013 - 400 pages
It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman smelling of the sea, and bearing secrets. For in Georgian England, there is a world the young ladies in the drawing room will never know, a world of poverty, love, and brutal war.
9780857522016 0857522019 9781448170159 144817015X
Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character)--Fiction
Great Britain--History--Regency, 1811-1820--Fiction
Longbourn: a novel of pride and prejudice below stairs - Doubleday 2013 - 400 pages
It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman smelling of the sea, and bearing secrets. For in Georgian England, there is a world the young ladies in the drawing room will never know, a world of poverty, love, and brutal war.
9780857522016 0857522019 9781448170159 144817015X
Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character)--Fiction
Great Britain--History--Regency, 1811-1820--Fiction