Nonfiction Books about Servants
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Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times
by:
Lucy Lethbridge
3.69 avg rating — 1,440 ratings 
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Life Below Stairs: in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House
by:
Siân Evans
3.96 avg rating — 273 ratings 6. 
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
by:
Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating — 2,690 ratings 7. 
Aprons and Silver Spoons: The heartwarming memoirs of a 1930s scullery maid
by:
Mollie Moran
4.25 avg rating — 2,838 ratings 
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Over a Hot Stove: Life below stairs in Britain's great houses: the charming memoirs of a 1930s kitchen maid
by:
Flo Wadlow
3.74 avg rating — 639 ratings 10. 
Upstairs & Downstairs: The Illustrated Guide to the Real World of Downton Abbey
by:
Sarah Warwick
3.64 avg rating — 411 ratings 10. 
Roberts' Guide for Butlers & Household Staff (Applewood Books)
by:
Robert Roberts
3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings 12. 
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants
by:
Alison Maloney
3.35 avg rating — 3,584 ratings 13. 
Flunkeys and Scullions : Life Below Stairs in Georgian England
by:
Pamela Horn
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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What the Butler Saw: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Servant Problem
by:
E.S. Turner
3.92 avg rating — 59 ratings 18. 
The Housekeeper's Diary: Charles and Diana Before the Breakup
by:
Wendy Berry
3.61 avg rating — 313 ratings 19. 
Shadows Of A Princess: An Intimate Account by Her Private Secretary
by:
Patrick Jephson
3.58 avg rating — 418 ratings 20. 
Diamonds at Dinner: My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home
by:
Hilda Newman
3.86 avg rating — 1,635 ratings 
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Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England from Victorian Times 3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, the Edwardian Era to 1939
by:
Pamela Horn
3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings 24. 
A Brief Guide to Private Life in Britain's Stately Homes
by:
Michael Paterson
3.17 avg rating — 63 ratings 25. 
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Ladies In Waiting: From The Tudors To The Present Day
by:
Anne Somerset
3.67 avg rating — 316 ratings 
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What the Butler Winked At: Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne, Butler
by:
Eric Horne
3.34 avg rating — 166 ratings 29. 
The Servants' Hall: The Domestic History of a Country House
by:
Merlin Waterson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago
by:
Jacky Hyams
3.46 avg rating — 998 ratings 32. 
Not in Front of the Servants: A True Portrait of English Upstairs/Downstairs Life 3.68 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain
by:
Lucy Delap
4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 36. 
The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
by:
Caroline Johnson
4.58 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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The Housekeeper's Tale - The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House
by:
Tessa Boase
3.90 avg rating — 783 ratings 40. 
Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance
by:
Margaret Powell
3.55 avg rating — 1,346 ratings 41. 
Servants' Stories: Life Below Stairs in Their Own Words 1800-1950
by:
Michelle Higgs
3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings 42. 
The King's Servants: Men's Dress At The Accession Of Henry VIII
by:
Caroline Johnson
4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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The Palace Diaries: Twelve Years with HRH Prince Charles
by:
Sarah Goodall
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 312 ratings 46. 
Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses
by:
Lucy Worsley
3.71 avg rating — 357 ratings 47. 
The Experienced English Housekeeper; For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &C. 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
48. 
Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life (BLACK WOMEN WRITERS SERIES)
by:
Alice Childress
4.15 avg rating — 449 ratings 
54. 
Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's Most Devoted Servant
by:
Tom Quinn
3.63 avg rating — 668 ratings 
56. 
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy 3.84 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper
by:
Tom Quinn
3.91 avg rating — 450 ratings 56. 
Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century
by:
Hasia R. Diner
3.78 avg rating — 146 ratings 
61. 
The Domestic Servant Class In EIghteenth-Century England
by:
Jean J. Hecht
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
66. 
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe
by:
Angela Kelly
3.79 avg rating — 4,762 ratings 
69. 
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
by:
Anne Glenconner
4.06 avg rating — 30,067 ratings 72. 
A day in the life of a Victorian domestic servant (Unwin Victorian day series)
by:
Leonore Davidoff
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
74. 
Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: Kitchen Literature'
by:
Elizabeth Steere
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 76. 
Life in the Victorian Kitchen: Culinary Secrets and Servants' Stories
by:
Karen Foy
3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings 
80.
The Servants' Hall: A Downstairs History of a British Country House
by:
Merlin Waterson
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 81. 
The Butler's Guide to Running the Home and Other Graces
by:
Stanley Ager
3.81 avg rating — 285 ratings 82. 
Voices from the Back Stairs: Interpreting Servants' Lives at Historic House Museums
by:
Jennifer Pustz
3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings 82. 
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant
by:
Jeremy Musson
3.69 avg rating — 451 ratings 84. 
The Duties of Servants: A Practical Guide to the Routine of Domestic Service
by:
Jan Barnes
3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings 
86. 
Labours Lost: Domestic Service and the Making of Modern England
by:
Carolyn Steedman
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 87. 
Visitbritain Stately Service Then and Now
by:
VisitBritain
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 88. 
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The Secret People of the Palaces: The Royal Household from the Plantagenets to Queen Victoria
by:
Joan Glasheen
3.50 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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95. 
Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (Volume 7)
by:
Anne Walthall
3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings 
97. 
Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain
by:
Kristina Straub
3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 98. 
Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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