and Nicolson), London, 1980
Thompson, F.M.L.,
English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century
(Routledge & Kegan Paul), London, 1963
Washington, B.T.,
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
(Doubleday), New York, 1901
Wells, H.G.,
Tono-Bungay
, first published 1909, republished 1964 (Pan Books), London, 1964
Wells, H.G.,
Experiments in Autobiography
(Victor Gollancz), London, 1934
THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
Anon.,
How to be Happy Though Married
(T. Fisher Unwin), London, c. 1900
Aslet, Clive,
The Last Country Houses
(Yale University Press), London and New Haven, 1982
Bailey, Catharine,
Black Diamonds
(Penguin), London, 2008
Cooper, Lady Diana,
The Rainbow Comes and Goes
, 1958 (republished Century, London, 1984)
Dawes, Frank,
Not in Front of the Servants: Domestic Service 1850–1939
(Wayland), London, 1973
Egremont, Lord,
Wyndham and Children First
(Macmillan), London, 1968
Fingall, Countess of,
Seventy Years Young, as Told to Pamela Hinkson
(Collins), London, 1937
Gorst, Frederick,
Carriages and Kings
(W.H. Allen), London, 1956
Hall, Michael,
Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House
(Harry N. Abrams), New York, 2002
Harrison, Rosina (ed.),
Gentlemen’s Gentlemen
(Sphere Books), London, 1978
Harrison, Rosina, Rose:
My Life in Service
(Cassell), London, 1975
Laurie, Kedrun (ed.),
Cricketer Preferred: Estate Workers at Lyme Park 1898–1946
(Lyme Park Joint Committee), Lyme, 1979
Lees-Milne, James,
Ancestral Voices
(Chatto & Windus), London, 1975
Lewis, Lesley,
The Private Life of a Country House 1912–39
(David & Charles), Newton Abbot, 1980
McCrum, Robert,
Wodehouse: A Life
(Viking Penguin), London, 2004
Powell, Margaret,
Below Stairs
(Peter Davies), London, 1968
Robinson, John Martin,
The Country House at War
(Bodley Head), London, 1989
Ruffer, Jonathan,
The Big Shots: Edwardian Shooting Parties
(Quiller Press), London, 1977
Sackville-West, Vita,
The Edwardians
, 1930 (republished Virago), London, 1983
Seebohm, Caroline,
The Country House: A Wartime History 1939–45
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson), London, 1989
Sitwell, Osbert,
Left Hand! Right Hand!
(Macmillan), 3 vols, London, 1948
Smiley, Lavinia,
A Nice Clean Plate: Recollections 1919–1931
(Michael Russell), Wilby, 1981
Smith, Charles,
Fifty Years with Mountbatten: A Personal Memoir by his Valet and Butler
(Sidgwick & Jackson), London, 1980
Turner, Tom,
Memoirs of a Gamekeeper
(Bles), London, 1954
Waterson, Merlin (ed.),
The Country House Remembered: Recollections of Life Between the Wars
(Routledge & Kegan Paul), London, 1985
Wodehouse, P.G.,
Money in the Bank
(Doubleday Doran), New York, 1942
Worsthorne, Peregrine,
Tricks of Memory: An Autobiography
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson), London, 1993
Ziegler, Philip,
Osbert Sitwell
(Random House), London, 1999
THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Ager, Stanley and St Aubyn, Fiona,
The Butler’s Guide to Clothes Care, Managing the Table, Running the Home and Other Graces
(Simon & Schuster), London and New York, 1980
Beard, Madeliene,
English Landed Society in the Twentieth Century
(Routledge), London, 1989
Cartland, Barbara,
Etiquette Handbook: A Guide to Good Behaviour from the Boudoir to the Boardroom
, 1962 (reprinted Random House, London, 2008)
Cornforth, John,
The Country Houses of England, 1948–1998
(Constable), London, 1998
Devonshire, the Duchess of,
The House: A Portrait of Chatsworth
(Macmillan/Book Club Associates), London, 1982
Devonshire, the Duchess of,
Counting My Chickens and Other Home Thoughts
(Long Barn), Ebrington, 2001
Horn, Pamela,
Life Below Stairs in the Twentieth Century
(Sutton Publishing), Stroud, 2003
Inch, Arthur and Hirst, Arlene,
Dinner is Served: An English Butler’s Guide to the Art of the Table
(Running Press), London, 2003
McCrum, Robert,
Wodehouse: A Life
(Penguin), London, 2004
Martin, Brian P.,
Tales of Old Gamekeepers
(David & Charles), Newton Abbot, 1989
Musgrave, Toby,
The Head Gardeners
(Aurum Press), London, 2007
National Trust,
The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of
Jacquelyn Mitchard
S F Chapman
Nicole MacDonald
Trish Milburn
Mishka Shubaly
Marc Weidenbaum
Gaelen Foley
Gigi Aceves
Amy Woods
Michelle Sagara