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Over a Hot Stove: A Kitchen Maid's Story: Life Below Stairs in Britain's Great Houses: The Charming Memoirs of a 1930s Kitchen Maid - Softcover

Wadlow, Flo

 
9780749015718: Over a Hot Stove: A Kitchen Maid's Story: Life Below Stairs in Britain's Great Houses: The Charming Memoirs of a 1930s Kitchen Maid
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0749015713 ISBN 13: 9780749015718
Verlag: Allison & Busby, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This delightful memoir provides a unique Upstairs, Downstairs account of what life was really like in a bygone era.At the age of sixteen, Flo Wadlow left her family to begin what would become a distinguished life in service . Starting as a kitchen maid in London, she soon rose through the ranks and worked at many of England s great houses including Woodhall in Hilgay where she met scullery maid Mollie Moran, author of Aprons and Silver Spoons; Hatfield House and Blicking Hall. By her early twenties, Flo was in charge of the kitchen and cooked for prime ministers and royalty. Including some of Flo s cherished recipes and photographs from her life, Over a Hot Stove is a must-read for fans of Downton Abbey.

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Florence Wadlow died on 9th January 2013, at the age of 100. The Daily Telegraph paid tribute to her with a detailed obituary. Flo was unimpressed by the TV programmes Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey, saying: ‘They have got it wrong. They should have talked to people like me.’

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Verlag
Allison & Busby
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0749015713
ISBN 13 
9780749015718
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
190
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