Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago - Softcover

Horn, Pamela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1445619814 ISBN 13: 9781445619811

Publisher: Amberley Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, where they spent the Season and where the girls officially entered Society by being presented at Court. Pamela Horn's book examines the lives of these 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 besides, up to the life-transforming years of the First World War.

About this title

Review:

'Pamela Horn has used original sources to investigate the times of these privileged women before society was utterly changed by the First Word War & its aftermath' --The Lady

About the Author:

Dr Pamela Horn lectured on social history for over twenty years at Oxford Brookes University. Her books include High Society: The English Social Elite 1880-1914, Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant, The Victorian Country Child and Flunkeys and Scullions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1445619814
• ISBN 13: 9781445619811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256