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 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.

• 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.

• Huge

  interest in period dramas set in the country houses of Edwardian Britain.

• Reviews

  in history magazines, national weeklies, national daily and Sunday newspapers,

  to include: The Independent and The Sunday Times, THES, and BBC History

  Magazine.

• Subject

  of the book is relevant to many historic country houses run by the National

  Trust and English Heritage.