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Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alice Ayres, Paul Burrell, Archibald Hall, George Smith, Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, Michael Fawcett, William Tallon, Ivor Spencer, Lilian Sperling, Mary Ann Thurston. Excerpt: Alice Ayres Alice Ayres ( c. 1859 26 April 1885) was an English household assistant and nursemaid to the family of her brother-in-law and sister, Henry and Mary Ann Chandler. The Chandlers owned an oil and paint shop in Union Street, Southwark, and Ayres lived with the family above the shop. In 1885 fire broke out in the shop, and Ayres rescued three of her nieces from the burning building, before falling from a window and fatally injuring herself. Ayres died during a period of great social change in Britain in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, in which a rapidly growing media was paying increasing attention to the activities of the poorer classes. The manner of her death caused great public interest, and large numbers of people attended her funeral and contributed to the funding of a memorial. Shortly after her death, she underwent what has been described as a "secular canonisation," and became widely depicted in the popular culture of the period. The circumstances of her death were distorted to give the impression that she was an employee willing to die for the sake of her employer's family, and although very little was known about her life, she was widely cited as a role model. Various social and political movements promoted Ayres as an example of the values held by their particular movement. In 1902 her name was added to the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice and in 1936 a street near the scene of the fire was renamed Ayres Street in her honour. The case of Alice Ayres came to renewed public notice with the release of Patrick Marber 's 1997 play Closer, and the 2...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with British Servants: Alice Ayres, Paul Burrell, Archibald Hall, George Smith, Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants. To get started finding British Servants: Alice Ayres, Paul Burrell, Archibald Hall, George Smith, Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2010

ISBN: 1155613872

Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alice Ayres, Paul Burrell, Archibald Hall, George Smith, Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, Michael Fawcett, William Tallon, Ivor Spencer, Lilian Sperling, Mary Ann Thurston. Excerpt: Alice Ayres Alice Ayres ( c. 1859 26 April 1885) was an English household assistant and nursemaid to the family of her brother-in-law and sister, Henry and Mary Ann Chandler. The Chandlers owned an oil and paint shop in Union Street, Southwark, and Ayres lived with the family above the shop. In 1885 fire broke out in the shop, and Ayres rescued three of her nieces from the burning building, before falling from a window and fatally injuring herself. Ayres died during a period of great social change in Britain in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, in which a rapidly growing media was paying increasing attention to the activities of the poorer classes. The manner of her death caused great public interest, and large numbers of people attended her funeral and contributed to the funding of a memorial. Shortly after her death, she underwent what has been described as a "secular canonisation," and became widely depicted in the popular culture of the period. The circumstances of her death were distorted to give the impression that she was an employee willing to die for the sake of her employer's family, and although very little was known about her life, she was widely cited as a role model. Various social and political movements promoted Ayres as an example of the values held by their particular movement. In 1902 her name was added to the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice and in 1936 a street near the scene of the fire was renamed Ayres Street in her honour. The case of Alice Ayres came to renewed public notice with the release of Patrick Marber 's 1997 play Closer, and the 2...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with British Servants: Alice Ayres, Paul Burrell, Archibald Hall, George Smith, Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants. To get started finding British Servants: Alice Ayres, Paul Burrell, Archibald Hall, George Smith, Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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