The Cook's Tale: Life Below Stairs as it Really Was
- ISBN-10
- 144473590X
- ISBN-13
- 9781444735901
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-04-12
- Publisher
- Coronet
- Authors
- Tom Quinn, Nancy Jackman
Description
Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a cottage so small that access to the single upstairs room was via a ladder. The pace of life in that long-vanished world was dictated by the slow, heavy tread of the farm horse and though Nancy's earliest memories were of a green, sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar, she also knew at first hand the harshness of a world where the elderly were forced to break stones on the roads and where school children were regularly beaten. Nancy left school at the age of twelve to work for a local farmer who forced her to stand in the rain when she made a mistake, physically abused her and eventually tried to rape her. Nancy continued to work as a cook until the 1950s, sustained by her determination to escape and find a life of her own.
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