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Summary: "England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, are busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive: the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie O'Brien. But there are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWeldon, Fay.
Summary: "From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns. The ripple effects spread to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWeldon, Fay.
Summary: From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton AbbeyAs the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns. The ripple effects spread to everyone...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2013
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Weldon, Fay
Summary: "1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELWeldon, Fay.
Summary: A second installment in the trilogy by the award-winning author of the original Upstairs Downstairs follows the restoration of the Dilberne fortune and manor at the turn of the 20th century, when Lord Robert and Lady Isobel assist coronation plans for Edward VII, anticipate the birth of a grandchild and debate the future of an orphaned niece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELSummary: The lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place are followed. Upstairs lives Richard Bellamy, the head of the household, and also a member of Parliament. His wife is a member of the titled aristocracy. Downstairs is Hudson, the Scottish butler who directs and guides the other servants concerning their tasks and proper places.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UPSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Up 1Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: Each author gives the mystery genre his or her own twist, with results from humorous to the macabre. You will visit conventional English drawing rooms, a boy's prep school, a luxury health spa and a snowbound hotel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Granada Television Ltd. 2008