Pamela Sambrook
Autor de The Country House Servant
Sobre El Autor
Pamela A. Sambrook is a freelance lecturer, writer and consultant to the heritage industry and lecturer and researcher at Keele University
Obras de Pamela Sambrook
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Conocimiento común
Miembros
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 168
- Popularidad
- #126,679
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 19
To that end, Sambrook combed through published and unpublished collections of letters, diaries, memoirs, and other works for illustrative passages. Covering country house life from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, the selections capture the patterns and experiences of the servants' everyday lives. She presents them thematically by grouping them into sections that examine different aspects of their lives, from their recruitment and work to their recreations and old age. Each chapter begins with a short overview summarizing these experiences, which provides a useful context when reading the passages that follow. But it is the words of the servants themselves which are at the heart of the book, giving voices to these long-silent figures.
Through this method, Sambrook succeeds in transforming the servants into real people. Some of her selections are funny, others are tragic, but all of them help the reader to understand the lives they and their colleagues led. With an excellent bibliography of her sources as a guide to further reading, this is an good starting point for anyone seeking to learn about the lives of domestic servants in the country houses.… (más)