Below stairs the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired "Upstairs, downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"

Below stairs the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired "Upstairs, downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"

By
Margaret Powell
Margaret Powell
1968 • 221 pages

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