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Rose : my life in service to Lady Astor / Rosina Harrison.
- Title
- Rose : my life in service to Lady Astor / Rosina Harrison.
- Author
- Harrison, Rosina.
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DA574.A8 H37 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 354 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Provides the author's account of working as the personal maid for the American-born Lady Astor.
- Subject
- Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964
- Harrison, Rosina
- 1900-1999
- Women legislators > Great Britain > Biography
- Americans > Great Britain > Biography
- Nobility > Great Britain > Biography
- Women household employees > Great Britain > Biography
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Autobiographies
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Originally published: London : Cassell, 1975.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Childhood -- I go into service -- Meeting the Astors -- My lady and my duties -- Coming to terms with my job -- Entertaining in the grand manner -- The Astor family -- A family in wartime -- Achieving my ambition -- Religion and politics -- Last years.
- ISBN
- 9780143120865
- 0143120867
- LCCN
- ^^2011034501
- OCLC
- 727703088
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library