In 1632 it was recorded that the old house of Bethlem had " below stairs a parlour, a kitchen, two larders, a long entry throughout the house, and 21 rooms wherein the poor distracted people lie, and above the stairs eight rooms more for servants and the poor to lie in ".
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Already in 1632 it was recorded that Bethlem Royal Hospital, London had " below stairs a parlor, a kitchen, two larders, a long entry throughout the house, and 21 rooms wherein the poor distracted people lie, and above the stairs eight rooms more for servants and the poor to lie in ".
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In writing the series, the two writers drew on research and personal accounts from the period; Jimmy Perry's grandfather had been in service as a butler and David Croft's mother, Anne Croft, had been a musical comedy star in the 1920s, giving them some ideas of life both above and below stairs.
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He was the author, although the fact was long concealed, of " High Life below Stairs ", a two-act farce presented at Drury Lane on 31 October 1759; also of " False Concord " ( Covent Garden, 20 March 1764 ) and " The Tutor " ( Drury Lane, 4 February 1765 ).
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The house also contained many other innovations; it was one of the first in Australia to be lit by electricity, produced by its own generators, and Sargood employed a full-time electrician to maintain the system, and the fittings included an electrically powered bell system to communicate with the servants quarters and kitchens below stairs.
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It was reissued that year in the UK as " Below Stairs : The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid " and in 2012 published for the first time in the US as " Below Stairs : The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired " Upstairs, Downstairs " and " Downton Abbey " ".
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It was reissued that year in the UK as " Below Stairs : The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid " and in 2012 published for the first time in the US as " Below Stairs : The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired " Upstairs, Downstairs " and " Downton Abbey " ".
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Her play " The Porter s Daughter " ( a below stairs, women s eye view of the events in Shakespeare s Macbeth ), was produced at the Cockpit Theatre, and on a UK and Germany tour, and she was commissioned by the Unity Theatre, Liverpool, to write and direct " Random Oracle " ( 2001 ).
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The action of the novels of the Howells school goes on within four walls of painted canvas; they begin to shock once they describe an attack of asthma or a steak burning below stairs; they never penetrate beneath the flow of social concealments and urbanities to the passions that actually move men and women to their acts, and the great forces that circumscribe and condition personality.
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He is said to have assisted his brother Benjamin in the composition of " The Suspicious Husband " . He left several dramas in manuscript : among others " The Housekeeper, a Farce ", on the plan of James Townley's " High Life below Stairs " ( in favour of which it was rejected by Garrick ); and a tragedy on the life of Thomas Cromwell.
