In love with period dramas? Addicted to “Downton Abbey”? Then you might like these suggestions for further reading and viewing…
*Update: Season 4 news here – but don’t click through unless you have finished watching Season 3!!*
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More books and DVDs related to the Downton Abbey series:
- The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes
- The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era by Jessica Fellowes and Matthew Sturgis
- Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid’s Memoir That Inspired “Upstairs, Downstairs” and “Downton Abbey” by Margaret Powell
- The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago by Jacky Hyams
- Edwardian Cooking: 80 Recipes Inspired by Downton Abbey’s Elegant Meals by Larry Edwards
- Beyond Downton Abbey by Deb Hosey White and David Stewart White
- Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon
Books related this period in history:
- Aristocrats: Power, Grace, and Decadence: Britain’s Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present by Lawrence James
- The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine
- The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by Juliet Nicolson
- Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson
- What the Butler Winked At: Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne, Butler by Eric Horne
- Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison
- The Big Spenders: The Epic Story of the Rich Rich, the Grandees of America and the Magnificoes, and How They Spent Their Fortunes by Lucius Beebe
- To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace
- Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
- The American Heiress: A Novel by Daisy Goodwin
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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DVDs related to this period in history:
- Brideshead Revisited (1981 TV series)
- Bridehead Revisited (2008 film)
- Upstairs Downstairs: The Complete Series – 40th Anniversary Collection (1971)
- Upstairs Downstairs: Season 1 (2011)
- Upstairs Downstairs: Season 2 (2012)
More related to Julian Fellowes, the writer, actor and director, and the man behind “Downton Abbey” and “Gosford Park”:
- Gosford Park (2001 movie)
- Young Victoria (2008 movie)
- Julian Fellowes Investigates – A Most Mysterious Murder (2006) – docudrama
- Monarch of the Glen (TV series)
- Titanic (2011 TV series)
- Snobs (book)
- Past Imperfect (book)
- The Curious Adventures of the Abandoned Toys by Julian Fellowes and S. D. Schindler (children’s book)
Be sure to check out these period drama posts and photo galleries too:
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Cheers, Natasha
www.myLusciousLife.com
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