Includes excerpts, able to be read in about ten minutes, from both contemporary and traditional children's favorites.
Pamela Horn Knihy
Pamela Hornová je historička, která se specializuje na viktoriánskou sociální historii. Autorka ceněných knih o venkovském životě, životech služebnictva a dětství přednášela ekonomickou a sociální historii na Oxfordské polytechnice, nyní Oxford Brookes University, více než dvacet let.
How Smart Are You? Test Your Literature IQ
- 64 stránek
- 3 hodiny čtení
With these fun and revealing books, readers can test their knowledge in specific subjects and quickly calculate their level of expertise with an instant scoring wheel.
The Real Life Women of Downtown Abbey
- 240 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Pamela Horn examines the lives of the real Downton Abbey ladies from their childhood and marriage to their role as a Lady Bountiful. It covers their leisure pursuits, sporting activities, country-house weekends and much more
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant
- 264 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
Victorian England measured social acceptability in terms of the number of servants employed in a household. This frequently overlooked body of workers actually formed the largest occupational group in the country by the end of the 19th century. In this account, the author draws on contemporary sources, including servants' books and personal reminiscences of servants and employers, to offer a record of recruitment and training; the duties expected of servants; and the range of conditions under which they worked - some of which led to happy retirement, others to prostitution or squalid death. Complemented with photographs, Punch illustrations and other ephemera, the book offers a picture of this vanished social system.
