The Cook's Tale: Life below stairs as it really was
Life below stairs as it really was
Tom Quinn
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ISBN: | 9781444735901 |
Publisher: | Hachette |
Published: | 12 April, 2012 |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Links | Hachette |
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- The Canterbury Tales
- The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
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The Cook's Tale: Life below stairs as it really was
Life below stairs as it really was
Tom Quinn
Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder. The pace of life in that long-vanished world was dictated by the slow, heavy tread of the farm horse and though Nancy's earliest memories were of a green, sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar, she also knew at first hand the harshness of a world where the elderly were forced to break stones on the roads and where school children were regularly beaten. Nancy left school at the age of twelve to work for a local farmer who forced her to stand in the rain when she made a mistake, physically abused her and eventually tried to rape her. Nancy continued to work as a cook until the 1950s, sustained by her determination to escape and find a life of her own.
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