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Jackman Nancy
The Cook's Tale Life Below Stairs As It Really Was
The Cook's Tale Life Below Stairs As It Really Was
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Description: Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder. The pace of life in that long - vanished world was dictated by the slow heavy tread of the farm horse and though Nancy's earliest memories were of a green sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar she also knew at first hand the harshness of a world where the elderly were forced to break stones on the roads and where school children were regularly beaten. Nancy left school at the age of twelve to work for a local farmer who forced her to stand in the rain when she made a mistake physically abused her and eventually tried to rape her. Nancy continued to work as a cook until the 1950s sustained by her determination to escape and find a life of her own. The Cook's Tale shows you life below stairs as it really was and is perfect for fans of Downton Abbey. Part of the Lives of Servants series. Other titles in the series are: The Maid's Tale They Also Serve and Cocoa at Midnight.
Title: The Cook's Tale Life Below Stairs As It Really Was
Author(s): Jackman Nancy
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Barcode: 9781444735895
Pages: 256 Pages, None
Publication Date: 4/12/2012
Category: Biography: General
Description: Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder. The pace of life in that long - vanished world was dictated by the slow heavy tread of the farm horse and though Nancy's earliest memories were of a green sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar she also knew at first hand the harshness of a world where the elderly were forced to break stones on the roads and where school children were regularly beaten. Nancy left school at the age of twelve to work for a local farmer who forced her to stand in the rain when she made a mistake physically abused her and eventually tried to rape her. Nancy continued to work as a cook until the 1950s sustained by her determination to escape and find a life of her own. The Cook's Tale shows you life below stairs as it really was and is perfect for fans of Downton Abbey. Part of the Lives of Servants series. Other titles in the series are: The Maid's Tale They Also Serve and Cocoa at Midnight.
Title: The Cook's Tale Life Below Stairs As It Really Was
Author(s): Jackman Nancy
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Barcode: 9781444735895
Pages: 256 Pages, None
Publication Date: 4/12/2012
Category: Biography: General