Climbing the Stairs: From Kitchen Maid to Cook; the Heartwarming Memoir of a Life in Service
Author(s): Margaret Powell
Working below stairs in 1920s London, sixteen-year-old Margaret's mind turns to finding a man. But it's hard to look beguiling when you're elbow deep in dishwater...
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Margaret Powell was born in 1907 in Hove, and left school at the age of 13 to start working. At 14, she got a job in a hotel laundry room, and a year later went into service as a kitchen maid, eventually progressing to the position of cook, before marrying a milkman called Albert. In 1968 the first volume of her memoirs, Below Stairs, was published to instant success and turned her into a celebrity. She followed this up with Climbing the Stairs, The Treasure Upstairs and The Margaret Powell Cookery Book. She died in 1984.
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Pan Books
- : 06 October 2011
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Margaret Powell
- : Paperback
- : 1211
- : 640.46092
- : 16
- : 288