Isbn: 9781781310434 - the housekeeper's tale: the women who really ran the english country house (28 resultados)

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Condición: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Condición: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 7927127. 1788603031. 9/5/2026 10:10:31 AM.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:9781781310434.…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition, Second Printing. VG/VG. First Edition, Second Printing (same year as first printing) in d/w not price clipped. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR, TESSA BOASE, on title-page. Inscription reads, 'To ---/with best wishes/Tessa'. Illustrated with photographs and line-drawings. As a working class woman in the nineteenth century, you could do no better. The housekeeper of a great English country house might manage a hundred servants, and a domestic budget on a par with a small bank. She had no need of a home of her own - or, for that matter, a husband. But for all her importance, she has been invisable to history. With Bibliography and Index. Bruising to top two corners, and head and tail of spine; d/w has a 45mm tear at fold with fore-edge; else a very good copy , in a very good d/w, of a SCARCE first edition SIGNED B THE AUTHOR. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Dustwrapper is price clipped and protected by a layer of clear, non adhesive plastic. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condición: As New.

Condición: Very Good. Same day dispatch. Lovely copy. Both book and jacket are in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dustjacket Very Good +. First Edition, Later Print Run. 314 pages. Price-clipped dustjacket has a taped 8mm nick to bottom rear hinge, otherwise only slight wear. Green hardback binding has light wear only to spine-ends and boards' corners. A hint of foxing to page-edges, pages very clean. Nice condition. …

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Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Previous owner's gift inscription to half-title page. Signed by the author to the title page, with 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover. Slight rubbing to edges of dust-jacket, now protected using removable clear wrap, otherwise in excellent condition. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK INK, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some very slight edge wear to top of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£20.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 314pp, illustrated. Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want, and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and gruelling physical labour. Until now, her story has never been told. 'The Housekeeper's Tale' reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women's careers. Delving into secret diaries, unpublished letters and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain's most prominent households. There is Dorothy Doar, Regency housekeeper for the obscenely wealthy 1st Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. There is Sarah Wells, a deaf and elderly Victorian in charge of Uppark, West Sussex. Ellen Penketh is Edwardian cook housekeeper at the sociable but impecunious Erddig Hall in the Welsh borders. Hannah Mackenzie runs Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, Britain¿s first country house war hospital, bankrolled by playwright J. M. Barrie. And there is Grace Higgens, cook housekeeper to the Bloomsbury set at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex for half a century, an era defined by the Second World War. Revelatory, gripping and unexpectedly poignant, 'The Housekeeper's Tale' champions the invisible women who ran the English country house. Scarce signed. Jacket by Joanna MacGregor (ilustrador). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 314 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.