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? Pride and Prejudice was only half the story ? If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she??d most likely be a sight more careful with them. /> In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants?? hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.
Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen??s classic??into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily p… (más)
Limelite: Another age but the same perspective of downstairs' view of upstairs. Parallel nonfiction examination of same theme of classism in England at the end of the serving class era.
MarthaJeanne: The one book is a fictional account of servants' lives in England around 1800. The other a biographical account of the life of an actual servant a century later. But really, not that much had changed.
BookshelfMonstrosity: With narratives that run parallel to the events of Pride and Prejudice, these historical novels should enchant Jane Austen fans. An Assembly Such as This tells Mr. Darcy's story, while Longbourn examines the everyday lives of the Bennett family's servants.… (más)
BookshelfMonstrosity: Although Mina takes place in Victorian, not Regency, England, like Longbourn it centers around the relationship between two domestic servants -- both outsiders in different ways -- whose bond is threatened by the secrets in their pasts.… (más)
¿Y si Jane Austen hubiera dado voz a los criados? Son las cuatro de la mañana en Longbourn, la casa de los Bennett en Herdfordshire. Mientras las cinco hermanas y sus padres, los famosos protagonistas de Orgullo y prejuicio, duermen plácidamente, Sarah y Polly, las dos jóvenes doncellas, empiezan a trabajar a las órdenes de la anciana señora Hill, la cocinera. Todos llevan años repitiendo la misma rutina, pero saben que la vida es algo más que un simple ir y venir de trapos, cacerolas y escobas.Sarah es quien más desea arriesgar, y su pequeño y rutinario mundo finalmente cambia el día en que James Smith, un nuevo sirviente, llega a Longbourn arrastrando con él un pasado lleno de secretos y un futuro donde cabe la libertad. De repente, los sótanos y los áticos de la mansión cobran vida, y detrás de los delantales y los uniformes descubrimos criaturas que tienen mucho que contar. Mientras las hermanas Bennett duermen... sus criados por fin hablan, y vale la pena escuchar.El estilo de Jo Baker, que respeta la escritura de Jane Austen pero tiene un carácter propio, aporta nueva luz a un clásico y lo hace con gran talento e imaginación.
Like Austen, Baker has written an intoxicating love story but, also like Austen, the pleasure of her novel lies in its wit and fierce intelligence. Longbourn is a profound exploration of injustice, of poverty and dependence, of loyalty and the price of principle; running through the quiet beauty of much of Baker's writing is the unmistakable glint of anger.
Jo Baker’s interesting novel focuses on the downstairs life at Longbourn, the house where the Bennets of “Pride and Prejudice” live. The author makes no attempt to imitate Austen’s style, and pays relatively little attention to Austen’s major characters...Jo Baker’s thoroughly researched description of the servants’ toil expands the tiny piece of ivory that Jane Austen worked on by showing how the lives of the middle and upper classes depended on work that’s now hard to imagine...Certainly, of the many literary rethinkings of Austen’s work, “Longbourn” is one of the most engaging and rewarding
Baker deploys them to good effect not only for their intrinsic interest but as a moral corrective. She has also fashioned an absorbing and moving story about the servants at Longbourn...If part of Baker’s inspiration could have come from Charlotte Brontë, there’s also an aside straight out of “Les Misérables... But to mention these classics is not to condemn as pastiche a work that’s both original and charming, even gripping, in its own right.
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
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With Clare, with thanks for her attention, forbearance, patience.
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There could be no wearing of clothes without their laundering, just as surely as there could be no going without clothes, not in Hertfordshire anyway, and not in September.
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If Elizabeth had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them.
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? Pride and Prejudice was only half the story ? If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she??d most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly realm of the servants?? hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended.
Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austen??s classic??into the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily p
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Son las cuatro de la mañana en Longbourn, la casa de los Bennett en Herdfordshire. Mientras las cinco hermanas y sus padres, los famosos protagonistas de Orgullo y prejuicio, duermen plácidamente, Sarah y Polly, las dos jóvenes doncellas, empiezan a trabajar a las órdenes de la anciana señora Hill, la cocinera. Todos llevan años repitiendo la misma rutina, pero saben que la vida es algo más que un simple ir y venir de trapos, cacerolas y escobas.Sarah es quien más desea arriesgar, y su pequeño y rutinario mundo finalmente cambia el día en que James Smith, un nuevo sirviente, llega a Longbourn arrastrando con él un pasado lleno de secretos y un futuro donde cabe la libertad. De repente, los sótanos y los áticos de la mansión cobran vida, y detrás de los delantales y los uniformes descubrimos criaturas que tienen mucho que contar. Mientras las hermanas Bennett duermen... sus criados por fin hablan, y vale la pena escuchar.El estilo de Jo Baker, que respeta la escritura de Jane Austen pero tiene un carácter propio, aporta nueva luz a un clásico y lo hace con gran talento e imaginación.