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Title: Rose: My Life In Service.
Description: London, Cassell, 1975 1st Ed., hard cover green cloth bds, slight fading at btm edge and minor shelfwear otherwise VG, unclipped dust jacket, minor creasing at edges, VG, ffep clipped at corner - poss. name removal, neat inscription to ffep verso, contents clean and bright, b/w plates loose, pp268. Rose tells of her service with Nancy, Lady Astor "...the American-born first woman Member of Parliament... brilliant, tempestuous and unpredicable. Rose, the outspoken Yorkshire-woman, gave as good as she got. For thirty-five years the battle of wills, wits and words raged between the two women, so alike in temperment though worlds apart in money and status, until mutual respect mellowed into affectionate understanding."

Keywords: Yorkshire domestic service Lady Nancy Astor MP American life lady's maid Cliveden servant downstairs glamour travel 0304294705

Price: GBP 5.00 = appr. US$ 7.14 Seller: Little Owl Books
- Book number: 14706

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