TY - BOOK AU - Baker,Jo AU - Austen,Jane TI - Longbourn: a novel of pride and prejudice below stairs SN - 9780857522016 PY - 2013/// PB - Doubleday KW - Bennet, Elizabeth (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Regency, 1811-1820 N2 - 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 ER -