glyptodonsneeze's review
5.0
Kind of a mess but it was great fun. Manor House is my favorite reality show ever and I was hoping for hot gossip about the cast and the making of, but this book has little of that: The lower servants snuck upstairs once when the family was at the opera, end of story. Even most of the servant commentary is lifted from dialogue that was presented in the show, as opposed to diary cam comments or post-filming interviews or letters or diaries or any other source. In the main then, this is a book about Edwardian history that includes things like a looooong chapter on King Edward's mistresses and a lot of Edwardian politics. A lot of general good information about the role of servants in an Edwardian household is presented, and tied in to the Edwardian Country House cast experiences, and that's what makes this book good, but not informative about the Edwardian Country House project.
Lots of bonkers typos (calling Alexander Graham Bell "Robert Graham Bell") and inserts on how to make Edwardian crafts at home that look like page layout errors until you get used to them.
Lots of bonkers typos (calling Alexander Graham Bell "Robert Graham Bell") and inserts on how to make Edwardian crafts at home that look like page layout errors until you get used to them.
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