The Housekeeper's Tale - Hannah Mackenzie's Story: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House

by Tessa Boase

Overview

This is Hannah Mackenzie’s story, one of the five stories that make up The Housekeeper’s Tale. Hannah Mackenzie’s career in domestic service encompassed the Victorian industrialist middle classes, the Edwardian conservative nouveau riche, the liberal aristocracy during the Great War and the American super-rich of the Roaring Twenties. This story shines a spotlight on one year of Hannah’s profession – 1914 to 1915. Wrest Park in Bedfordshire was the first country-house war hospital to receive wounded soldiers from the Great War. This first year of the war, with a lifetime’s worth of experience, exposed the Honorable Nan Herbert and her housekeeper to all of the horrors of modern warfare. Ultimately, it provides a moving story of great hardship and loss as well as glimpses of happiness and even love, and is a powerful testament to the actions of women when their country needed them most.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781314166
Publisher:	Aurum Press
Publication date:	05/19/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	771 KB

About the Author

Tessa Boase read English at Lincoln College, Oxford, then worked as a voiceover artist, a children’s scriptwriter, and as a commissioning editor for The Daily and Sunday Telegraphand The Daily Mail. As a freelance feature writer she contributes to The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The FT, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Observer and various magazines.