11 Top memoir books like Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid by Mollie Moran

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Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

By: Mollie Moran

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Born in 1916 in Norfolk, Mollie Moran is one of the few people still alive today who can recall wor…

If you liked the memoir plot in Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid by Mollie Moran , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Tallgrass

By: Sandra Dallas

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover

An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deep… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Dallas's Tallgrass book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • historical
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2. Jane Austen at Home

By: Lucy Worsley

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"

By: Margaret Powell , Leigh Crutchley

3.94

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants, Margaret Powell's classic memo… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Powell's Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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4. The Cook's Tale

By: Tom Quinn , Nancy Jackman

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Told in the first person by a woman who lived the hard life as a cook in a number of England's coun… read more

Similar categories in Tom Quinn's The Cook's Tale book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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5. Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

By: Mollie Moran

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

Born in 1916 in Norfolk, Mollie Moran is one of the few people still alive today who can recall wor… read more

Similar categories in Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

6. Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor

By: Rosina Harrison

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

In 1928, Rosina Harrison arrived at the illustrious household of the Astor family to take up her ne… read more

Similar categories in Rosina Harrison's Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

7. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

By: Mildred Armstrong Kalish

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to descr… read more

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8. Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants

By: Alison Maloney

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Last year, the telly-watching public was gripped by Downton Abbey-- the most successful British per… read more

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9. Over a Hot Stove

By: Flo Wadlow

3.74

Format: 85 pages, ebook

This delightful memoir provides a unique 'Upstairs, Downstairs' account of what life was really lik… read more

Similar categories in Flo Wadlow's Over a Hot Stove book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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10. Changing Times at Harpers (Welcome To Harpers Emporium #7)

By: Rosie Clarke

4.63

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

London Spring 1920 Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sal… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Clarke's Changing Times at Harpers (Welcome To Harpers Emporium #7) book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • british literature
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11. Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

By: Lucy Worsley

4.19

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black?… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Worsley's Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"She no longer followed fashion; she had created a fashion all her own."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"Surely Victoria's mental health suffered because all the men around her expected it to."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"The daily contents even of her bin 'would be more interesting than a year's file of The Times'."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"With Bertie's illness, Victoria's return to her best self, the self she had lost in Albert, had begun."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

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12. The Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It’s Destructive, and How to Respond

By: Alisa Childers

4.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking book on the true nature of faith deconstruction Alisa and Tim help the reader t… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Childers's The Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It’s Destructive, and How to Respond book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. When's Mummy Coming?

By: Rachel Wesson

4.61

Format: 630 pages, Kindle Edition

To Keep Her Children, Another Woman Has To Die Germany 1939 – To save her baby, Trudi Beck must ha… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Wesson's When's Mummy Coming? book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • historical
Cover of Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls by Marlene Wagman-Geller

14. Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

By: Marlene Wagman-Geller

3.44

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

People are riveted by royals, captivated by celebrities, mesmerized by the monied and enthralled by… read more

Similar categories in Marlene Wagman-Geller's Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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15. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

By: Kate Strasdin

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more

Similar categories in Kate Strasdin's The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. The Magdalen

By: Marita Conlon-McKenna

4.03

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Esther Doyle is a young Irish girl growing up in a small fishing community in Connemara in the 1950… read more

Similar categories in Marita Conlon-McKenna's The Magdalen book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • historical
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17. Sisters of the East End

By: Helen Batten

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Heart-warming tales of nursing and midwifery from the Sisters who worked with Jennifer Worth.‘A sec… read more

Similar categories in Helen Batten's Sisters of the East End book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid by Tim Tate

18. Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid

By: Tim Tate

3.85

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

A fascinating memoir of life as a lady's maid in a big house in the 1930s, covering the beauty of t… read more

Similar categories in Tim Tate's Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

By: Elizabeth White

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg—a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands o… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth White's The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"People are not fully defined by either the best or the worst of their actions"

-Elizabeth White, The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust

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20. 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… read more

Similar categories in Tom Quinn's The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs (Lives of Servants) book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"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…"

-Tom Quinn, The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs (Lives of Servants)

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21. They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler

By: Tom Quinn

4.21

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to… read more

Similar categories in Tom Quinn's They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler book and Mollie Moran's Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

14 must-read history books like Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid by Mollie Moran

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Lucy Worsley

3.16

Transform Your Habits

Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey"

Margaret Powell , Leigh Crutchley

3.94

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The Cook's Tale

Tom Quinn , Nancy Jackman

3.80

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3.94

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5 Top fiction books like Changing Times at Harpers (Welcome To Harpers Emporium #7) by Rosie Clarke

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Patricia McBride

4.46

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New Neighbours for Coronation Close (Coronation Close, #1)

Lizzie Lane

4.41

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A Fond Farewell for the Tobacco Girls (The Tobacco Girls #6)

Lizzie Lane

4.66

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Rosie Clarke

4.63

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