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Diamonds At Dinner: My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home. By Hilda
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- Title
- Diamonds At Dinner: My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately
- ISBN
- 9781782196105
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Diamonds at Dinner: My Life As a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home.
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing LTD
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- History
- Item Width
- 126mm
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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'I thought I'd gone to a prison.' This was Hilda Newman's first impression when, at the age of 19, she left her parents' little terraced cottage in Lincolnshire and embarked on a new life as a lady's maid at Croome Court, the enormous stately home of Lord and Lady Coventry. The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a Coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain's most noble families. In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and down, Hilda takes us back to a gilded era which would be brutally swept away by the Second World War. Hers is a very personal story of being transplanted from a tiny house with no bath or hot water to an eighteenth-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by parkland landscaped by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. But it is also the remarkable story of the family whose service she entered - and that of Croome Court itself: during World War Two, it housed the Dutch Royal Family - who had fled the Nazi occupation - and it was also home to the top-secret RAF base where radar was developed. This is Hilda's story.
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John Blake Publishing LTD
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Diamonds at Dinner: My Life As a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home.
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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198mm
Item Width
126mm
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United Kingdom
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