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The Housekeeper's Tale - Sarah Wells's Story

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This is Sarah Wells's story, one of the five stories that make up The Housekeeper's Tale.

Mrs Wells was bad at accounts, bad at managing her girls, ill experienced in buying stores and economising – and this was only the opinion of her son, the writer H. G. Wells. Despite this accepted view of her housekeeping abilities, Sarah Wells managed to maintain her tenure at Uppark, West Sussex, for 13 years, having arrived in 1880. It was during this half of the nineteenth century that was the era of wealth creation for the Victorians: the railway age.

Presiding over a home where the master of the house had married the estate dairymaid, this transition from downstairs to upstairs was most unusual and risked sending the household into chaos. What followed was positively stranger than fiction, as her own son expressed in some of his published works.


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Publisher: MBI

Kindle Book

  • Release date: June 20, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781781314159
  • Release date: June 20, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781781314159
  • File size: 740 KB
  • Release date: June 20, 2014

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History Nonfiction

Languages

English

This is Sarah Wells's story, one of the five stories that make up The Housekeeper's Tale.

Mrs Wells was bad at accounts, bad at managing her girls, ill experienced in buying stores and economising – and this was only the opinion of her son, the writer H. G. Wells. Despite this accepted view of her housekeeping abilities, Sarah Wells managed to maintain her tenure at Uppark, West Sussex, for 13 years, having arrived in 1880. It was during this half of the nineteenth century that was the era of wealth creation for the Victorians: the railway age.

Presiding over a home where the master of the house had married the estate dairymaid, this transition from downstairs to upstairs was most unusual and risked sending the household into chaos. What followed was positively stranger than fiction, as her own son expressed in some of his published works.


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    MBI

    Kindle Book
    Release date: June 20, 2014

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781781314159
    Release date: June 20, 2014

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781781314159
    File size: 740 KB
    Release date: June 20, 2014

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English