Longbourn: a novel of pride and prejudice below stairs
by Baker, Jo; Austen, Jane 1775-1817.
Material type: BookPublisher: Doubleday 2013ISBN: 9780857522016; 0857522019; 9781448170159; 144817015X.Classification number: Subject(s): Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Regency, 1811-1820 -- FictionSubject: 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.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Fiction | Available | 002838665X | ||||
Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Fiction | Available | 002838668X |
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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.
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