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A year in the life of Downton Abbey : seasonal celebrations, traditions, and recipes / by Fellowes, Jessica,author.; Briggs, Nick.; Fellowes, Julian.;
Includes bibliographical references.An official companion to the hit series shares insights into daily and seasonal life for upstairs and downstairs residents at the early twentieth-century estate, incorporating exclusive photos from the show's fifth season.
Subjects: Downton Abbey (Television program); Cooking, English.; Country homes; English cooking.; Household employees; Upper class;
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Downton Abbey. [videorecording] / by Baye, Nathalie,1948-actor.; Bonneville, Hugh,actor.; Carmichael, Laura,1986-actor.; Carter, Jim,1948-actor.; Cassidy, Raquel,1968-actor.; Coyle, Brendan,actor.; Curtis, Simon,1960-film director.; Dancy, Hugh,1975-actor.; Dockery, Michelle,1981-actor.; Doyle, Kevin,1961-actor.; Fellowes, Julian,screenwriter,film producer.; Fox, Michael,1989-actor.; Froggatt, Joanne,1980-actor.; Hadden-Paton, Harry,1981-actor.; Haddock, Laura,1985-actor.; James-Collier, Rob,actor.; Leech, Allen,actor.; Logan, Phyllis,actor.; Lunn, John,1956-composer (expression); McGovern, Elizabeth,1961-actor.; McShera, Sophie,actor.; Middleton, Tuppence,1987-actor.; Neame, Gareth,film producer.; Nicol, Lesley,1953-actor.; Smith, Maggie,1934-actor.; Staunton, Imelda,1956-actor.; Trubridge, Liz,film producer.; West, Dominic,1969-actor.; Wilton, Penelope,1946-actor.; Zaccaï, Jonathan,1970-actor.; Carnival Films (Great Britain),production company.; Focus Features,presenter.; Studio Distribution Services (Firm),distributor.; Universal Pictures (Firm),publisher.;
Music by John Lunn ; editor, Adam Recht ; director of photography, Andrew Dunn.Nathalie Baye, Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Hugh Dancy, Michelle Dockery, Kevin Doyle, Michael Fox, Joanne Froggart, Harry Hadden-Paton, Laura Haddock, Robert James- Collier, Allen Leech, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Sophie McShera, Tuppence Middleton, Lesley Nicol, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Penelope Wilton, Jonathan Zaccaï.The Dowager Countess reveals she has a villa in the south of France, and many of the family follow her there for a rest while some of the family stay behind to keep an eye on the cast and crew of a film which is shooting at the grand estate.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.MPAA rating: PG; some suggestive references, language and thematic elements.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Aristocracy (Social class); Country life; Household employees; Man-woman relationships; Motion pictures; Social classes; Upper class families;
For private home use only.
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The Gilded Age. [videorecording] / by Baranski, Christine,actor.; Benton, Denée,actor.; Cocquerel, Thomas,1990-actor.; Coon, Carrie,1981-actor.; Farmiga, Taissa,1994-actor.; Gilpin, Jack,1951-actor.; Jacobson, Louisa,1991-actor.; Jones, Simon,1950-actor.; Nixon, Cynthia,actor.; Richardson, Harry(Actor),actor.; Ritson, Blake,actor.; Spector, Morgan,1980-actor.; Home Box Office (Firm),publisher,production company.; Warner Bros. Entertainment,distributor.;
Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Louisa Jacobson, Denee Benton, Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Jeanne Tripplehorn.The American Gilded Age was a period of significant economic change, conflict between old and new systems, and fortunes made and lost. Season two of The Gilded Age begins on Easter 1883, with Bertha Russell's bid for a box at the Academy of Music rejected. Over eight episodes, Bertha challenges Mrs. Astor and the old system to gain a foothold in Society. George Russell battles a growing union at his Pittsburgh steel plant. Marian secretly teaches at a girls' school, while Ada starts a new courtship, to Agnes's disapproval. In Brooklyn, the Scott family heals from a shocking discovery, and Peggy becomes an activist through her work at the NY Globe.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; Entrepreneurship; Families; Family-owned business enterprises; Upper class; Man-woman relationships; Nouveau riche; Rich people;
For private home use only.
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Thoroughbreds [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Taylor-Joy, Anya; Cooke, Olivia; Yelchin, Anton;
Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Anton Yelchin.Director, Cory Finley.Blu-ray.OFRB rating: 14A.Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
Subjects: Drama.; Drama.;
© 2018., Universal,
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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / by Land, Stephanie,author.; Ehrenreich, Barbara,writer of foreword.;
A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Land, Stephanie.; Women household employees; Working class; Single mothers; Working poor; Poverty;
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Rebecca, not Becky : a novel / by Platt, Christine,author.;
In the vein of 'Such a Fun Age', 'Rebecca, Not Becky' is a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers -- one white, one Black -- living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Mothers; Suburban life; Rich people; Race relations;
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The Blunders / by Walliams, David,1971-; Stower, Adam.;
Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, their children, Brutus and Bunny, along with their beloved grandma Old Lady Blunder, and their pet ostrich, Cedric. An ostrich is not a sensible pet, but then the Blunders are not sensible people. This family of upper-class twits lives in a crumbling country house named Blunder Hall. When their home comes under threat, they must embark on a series of comic misadventures to save it.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Families; Eccentrics and eccentricities;
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A Room with a view [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Smith, Maggie; Carter, Helena Bonham; Elliott, Denholm; Day-Lewis, Daniel;
Director, James Ivory.Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Day-Lewis.Based on E.M. Forster's novel of requited love.A young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey. Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, this gargantuan art-house hit.CHVRS rating: PG.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Comedy.; Foreign.;
© 2004., The Criterion Collection,
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The pharaoh's court / by Hinds, Kathryn,1962-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-68), Internet addresses and index.Describes the daily life of the upper classes during the New Kingdom period of ancient Egypt, from about 1550 BCE to about 1070 BCE, including the structure of society, the differing roles of men and women, and what it was like to be a child in that era.
© c2007., Marshall Cavendish Benchmark,
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A complicated matter / by Youngson, Anne,author.;
1939, London: Rose is evacuated from her home and to a city of falling bombs, perplexing class rules, and bad weather. Despite being foreign to the locals, Rose becomes an efficient go-between for the upper-class ladies helping out with the war effort. It is only when she is shifted to the countryside to become secretary to Major Inchbold that Rose's journey to womanhood will become more surreal than ever. But Rose's greatest dilemma is yet to come, as she must decide where her home - and her heart - really lies.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); Interpersonal relations; Social classes; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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