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Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want - and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs. Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and grueling physical labor. Until now, her story has never been told. The Housekeeper's Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women's careers. Delving into secret diaries, unpublished letters and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain's most prominent households.
There is Dorothy Doar, Regency housekeeper for the obscenely wealthy 1st Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. There is Sarah Wells, a deaf and elderly Victorian in charge of Uppark, West Sussex. Ellen Penketh is Edwardian cook-housekeeper at the sociable but impecunious Erddig Hall in the Welsh borders. Hannah Mackenzie runs Wrest Park in Bedfordshire - Britain's first country-house war hospital, bankrolled by playwright J. M. Barrie. And there is Grace Higgens, cook-housekeeper to the Bloomsbury set at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex for half a century - an era defined by the Second World War.
Revelatory, gripping and unexpectedly poignant, The Housekeeper's Tale champions the invisible women who ran the English country house.
Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want - and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs. Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and grueling physical labor. Until now, her story has never been told. The Housekeeper's Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that shaped these women's careers. Delving into secret diaries, unpublished letters and the neglected service archives of our stately homes, Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary stories of five working women who ran some of Britain's most prominent households.
There is Dorothy Doar, Regency housekeeper for the obscenely wealthy 1st Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Trentham Hall, Staffordshire. There is Sarah Wells, a deaf and elderly Victorian in charge of Uppark, West Sussex. Ellen Penketh is Edwardian cook-housekeeper at the sociable but impecunious Erddig Hall in the Welsh borders. Hannah Mackenzie runs Wrest Park in Bedfordshire - Britain's first country-house war hospital, bankrolled by playwright J. M. Barrie. And there is Grace Higgens, cook-housekeeper to the Bloomsbury set at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex for half a century - an era defined by the Second World War.
Revelatory, gripping and unexpectedly poignant, The Housekeeper's Tale champions the invisible women who ran the English country house.
Prisen for levering afhænger af typen af dit medlemskab, eller om du ikke har et medlemskab.
Hvis du ikke har et medlemsskab er priserne som følger:
| Levering til pakkeshop | 39,95 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering | 59,90 kr. pr. ordre |
Med et guldmedlemsskab er leveringspriserne:
| Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 34,95 kr. pr. ordre |
| Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 24,95 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 59,90 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 49,90 kr. pr. ordre |
Med et plating- eller streaming medlemsskab er leveringspriserne:
| Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 24,95 kr. pr. ordre |
| Levering til pakkeshop. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 0 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering. Ordrer under 250 kr. | 44,90 kr. pr. ordre |
| Hjemmelevering. Ordrer over 250 kr. | 19,95 kr. pr. ordre |
Bemærk venligst, at vi forbeholder os retten til at ændre i et fragtbeløb efter ordreafgivelse, hvis man som kunde har opnået en særlig fragtpris pga. køb for over 250 kr. og efterfølgende retter i sin ordre, så ordrebeløbet kommer under 250 kr. Ovenstående fragtpriser for ordrer under 250 kr. vil i så fald være gældende.
Levering
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Vær opmærksom på, at DAO ofte leverer om natten, og at der ikke skal kvitteres for modtagelse af pakken fra DAO. Hvis ikke DAO kan levere pakken forsvarligt ved dør eller i postkasse,
vil pakken i stedet blive leveret til nærmeste pakkeshop, også selvom du har betalt for hjemmelevering.
