Tag: England

Mrs Queen Takes the Train, by William Kuhn

Mrs Queen Takes the Train on October 16, 2012 Pages: 374 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn (author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books) Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth… February 15, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 2 ★★★★½

“Below Stairs” by Margaret Powell

Below Stairs is the memoir which (in part) inspired both Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey. Born in 1907 to an impoverished family, Margaret Powell relinquished a scholarship she couldn’t afford to take up and entered domestic service as a kitchen maid — the lowest of the female servants — at… Read more »