Article: Keeping Their Place: Domestic Service in the Country House.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Keeping Their Place: Domestic Service in the Country House. Pamela Sambrook. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. xvi + 224 pages. ISBN 0-7509-3559-6. Pamela Sambrook has made herself into something of an expert in the vanished world of the country house, a way of life that had marked English civilisation from its beginning to the early twentieth century. In this book she has examined a vast array of manuscript sources to recreate the world of the household servants as described by themselves in 'letters, diaries and autobiography' from the eighteenth to the early years of the twentieth centuries. In addition there are surviving household records such as account and ...

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