Research Catalog

Title

Downtrodden Abbey : the interminable saga of an insufferable family / Gillian Fetlocks.

Author

Fetlocks, Gillian.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

xx, 170 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Welcome to Downtrodden Abbey, where a battle for the deed to the property is waged between legitimate aristocrats and literal pretenders to the throne. The Crawfish family--Marry, Supple, Enid, Lady Flora, and Lord Roderick--are content wiling their days away with naughty charades and twenty-two course dinners until the sinking of the Gigantic takes down the next in line to inherit Downtrodden. Soon, cousin Isabich and her son, Atchew, the rightful heir to the Abbey, arrive to claim what's theirs. Downstairs, the servants are running amok, as crippled weakling Brace is aggressively courted by teen hottie Nana, and lady's maid "Potatoes" O'Grotten and her flamboyant sidekick, Tomaine, cause trouble at every turn. The ensuing, insufferably overwrought melodrama takes the reader upstairs and downstairs, into parlours and drawing rooms, boudoirs and bathrooms, and across every class--from the classiest to the classless--in the social pecking order of Edwardian England.

Subject

• Downton Abbey (Television program) > Parodies, imitations, etc
• Upper class > England > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
• Household employees > Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction

Genre/Form

Humorous fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781250031235 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 1250031230 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781250031242 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013023820

OCLC

• 827256881
• SCSB-11939295

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library