Serving the Good and the Great : The Amazing True Story of Violet Liddle

by Violet Liddle, As Told to Mary Batchelor

• ISBN13: 9780310253952
• ISBN10: 0310253950
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

Violet Liddle's charming account offers glimpses into another world and another time--into the private lives of the good and the great. She recounts her fascinating experiences as she served as parlour-maid to George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill before and during World War II. Because of her real-life upstairs/ downstairs experiences, she was an advisor to the filmmakers of and actors in the Academy Award-winning movie, Gosford Park. In Serving the Good and the Great, Violet shares her eyewitness account of some of the most important and powerful people of the 20th Century--from Churchill to Eisenhower, from Lady Astor to George Bernard Shaw--always in the light of her trust in God, 'whose service is perfect freedom'.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(2)
Acknowledgements	9	(4)
Prologue	13	(2)
`I Remember, I Remember . . .'	15	(14)
Learning The Hard Way	29	(10)
Shaw's Corner	39	(20)
Serving the Gentry	59	(22)
Joining the Army	81	(14)
Destination Unknown	95	(14)
The Prime Minister at Home	109	(12)
Summoned to Number 10	121	(14)
Election Shock	135	(8)
Army Days Are Over	143	(12)
Romance	155	(16)
Shades of the Past	171	(14)
Who's Who	185	(6)
Glossary	191