Madge Brigson, an elementary school teacher in England, intelligently copes with school problems and the harsh conditions fostered by the Great Depression

I'm Not Complaining

Politics & Social Sciences

Adam, Ruth

Sociology

DOUBLEDAY

A history of women's lives in the twentieth century, very readably written by a novelist. Preface by Yvonne Roberts.

Woman's Place R Adam

History

Europe

Norton

A woman's place, 1910-1975

Social Sciences

Chatto&Windus

I'm not complaining (Virago modern classics)

Virago

"[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted. But she was an aristocratic lady on our hands. All ideas for making her work for a living were wrecked on the fact that she was born to be served and not to serve. Six friends have spent the dark, deprived years of World War II fantasising-in air raid shelters and food queues-about an idyllic life in a massive country house. With the coming of peace, they seize on a seductive newspaper ad and take possession of a neglected 33-room manor in Kent, with acres of lavish gardens and an elderly gardener yearning to revive the estate's glory days. But the realities of managing this behemoth soon dawn, including a knife-wielding maid, unruly pigs, and a paying guest who tells harrowing stories of her time in the French Resistance, not to mention the friends' conscientious efforts to offer staff a fair 40-hour work week and paid overtime. And then there's the ghost of an overworked scullery maid . . . Based on the actual experiences of Ruth Adam, her husband, and their friends, A House in the Country is a witty and touching novel about the perils of dreams come true. But it's also a constantly entertaining tale packed with fascinating details of post-war life-and about the realities of life in the kind of house most of us only experience via Downton Abbey.

A House in the Country

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Dean Street Press

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