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While Powell’s first book, Below Stairs , focused on the grueling labor of a kitchen maid, Servants' Hall centers on a real-life "fairy tale" that was more like a nightmare for the aristocracy.

Employers were often obsessed with a servant's "moral welfare"—strictly banning "followers" (boyfriends)—while ignoring their physical exhaustion from 15-hour workdays. Go to product viewer dialog for this item. Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstair...

If you have ever binged Downton Abbey and wondered if a kitchen maid could really snag the Earl’s son, Margaret Powell has the true story for you. In her witty and sharp-eyed memoir, , Powell pulls back the heavy velvet curtain of 1920s England to show us what life was actually like for the people who kept those grand houses running. The Scandal That Rocked Redlands While Powell’s first book, Below Stairs , focused

Powell describes the servants' hall as having tiny windows where you could only see the legs of people passing by outside. Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance