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Knopf
October 2013
On Sale: October 8, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 0385351232
EAN: 9780385351232
Kindle: B00CCPIITQ
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Historical | Jane Austen
β’ Pride and Prejudice was only half the story β’ If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, sheβd 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 servantsβ hall threatens to be completely, perhaps irrevocably, upended. Jo Baker dares to take us beyond the drawing rooms of Jane Austenβs classicβinto the often overlooked domain of the stern housekeeper and the starry-eyed kitchen maid, into the gritty daily particulars faced by the lower classes in Regency England during the Napoleonic Warsβand, in doing so, creates a vivid, fascinating, fully realized world that is wholly her own.
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