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Stanley, Liz, The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant (Ruttgers University Press), Piscataway, NJ, 1984

Sykes, Christophes Simon, Country House Camera (Book Club Associates/Weidenfeld 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