The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs (Lives of Servants)
By: Tom Quinn
4.09
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum, where she fought an unending battle with hu…
Want to Read $ 3.99"It was after our breakfast that I was told to go up along with the parlour maid and serve the family breakfast. I was very nervous, but the parlour maid told me not to worry. So up I went, shaking in my boots, and into the breakfast room where the sideboard was laden with kidneys and rice and bacon and all sorts of delicious things. There were just four people at the table: three elderly men and a woman with a green parrot on her shoulder. Now, the thing about the parrot was that it had messed all down her shoulder and all down the front of her dress and she wasn't in the least bothered. She just smiled into the distance and every now and then fed the bird something from her hand."-Tom Quinn, The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs (Lives of Servants)
"It was after our breakfast that I was told to go up along with the parlour maid and serve the family breakfast. I was very nervous, but the parlour maid told me not to worry. So up I went, shaking in my boots, and into the breakfast room where the sideboard was laden with kidneys and rice and bacon and all sorts of delicious things. There were just four people at the table: three elderly men and a woman with a green parrot on her shoulder. Now, the thing about the parrot was that it had messed all down her shoulder and all down the front of her dress and she wasn't in the least bothered. She just smiled into the distance and every now and then fed the bird something from her hand."-Tom Quinn, The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs (Lives of Servants)
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20. The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs (Lives of Servants)
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