The Real Life Women of Downton Abbey

• Weaves into the narrative the ‘voices’ of women living in the British country house• Author a renowned expert social historian.• Complemented by numerous contemporary photographs.• 'Pamela Horn has used original sources to investigate the times of these privileged women before society was utterly changed by the First Word War and its aftermath' THE LADY, 'A must. Based largely on diaries, letters and reminisces' THE WI MAGAZINE.• Huge interest in ITV's period drama DOWNTON ABBEY which is set in Edwardian Britain, the third series which covers the first years of the 1920s starts in September.In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, where they spent the Season and where the girls officially entered Society by being presented at Court. Pamela Horn's book examines the lives of these real 'Downton Abbey' ladies from their childhood and marriage to their role as a 'Lady Bountiful'. It covers their leisure pursuits, sporting activities, country-house weekends, and much more besides, up to the life-transforming years of the First World War.