Her Ladyship's Girl
Anwyn Moyle
Magyar cím:
Kiadó: Simon & Shuster
Nyelv: Angol
Típus: Használt   Állapot:
Kiadás: 2014
ISBN 10:
ISBN 13: 9781471134111
Méret: 13*20   Oldalszám: 292
Borító: Papír, Puha kötés
Raktáron: 1db
Szállítási idő: 1 munkanap
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Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a small mining village in Wales. At the age of sixteen, she was sent to London to earn her living, where she found a live-in job as a scullery maid. Her day began at 5 a.m., cleaning grates and lighting fires, then she would scrub floors and polish the house - all for two shillings a week, one of which she had to send home to her mother. Things improved when she secured the position of lady's maid in a house in Belgravia, on five shillings a week. Anwyn was required to be a hairdresser, beautician, confidante and secretary. Reporting directly to the lady of the house, she was expected to cover up her mistress's affairs. Her time as a lady's maid was over when she was caught with a young aristocrat in her room and banished from the house, but Anwyn found further employment in a variety of houses, working above and below stairs. However, she found her niche in the jolly working-class atmosphere of the capital city's pubs. London between the wars and during the Blitz is richly evoked and, despite all her hardships, Anwyn never asks for the readers' sympathy.