An Hour in the Morning

by Gordon D. Cooper

A twelve-year-old girl passes her Labour Examination and becomes a general maid to a well-to-do farm family in early twentieth-century England.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction

153 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

Born in 1964 in New York City, Gordon D. Cooper moved with his family to Watkins Glen, N.Y., when he was 3 years old. After graduating from Watkins Glen High School in 1983, he attended Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. and then began a career in electrical engineering. He served for 20 years in the U.S. Army Reserve, including deployments to Bosnia and Kosovo as a public affairs officer, before retiring as a major in 2003. In 2002, he started Preston Woods Publishing Company to promote books of regional interest. Watkins Glen Tour Guide is the first book he has authored. He lives in Northern California with his wife and their three sons.

Reviews

[seb · Rating 4 out of 5]

a wonderful cozy book that feels good reading however i am confused about the author. on your page https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
you indicate the book was published in 1971 and then add: "Born in 1964 in New York City, Gordon D. Cooper moved with his family to Watkins Glen, N.Y., when he was 3 years old." how precoscious. kindly correct.

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful story about a young English girl who goes into service.

I loved the cultural and historical details on every page and the characters were superb. I can’t wait to continue reading the next installment, A Time in a City.

[Rosalind Fisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has been wrongly catalogued by Goodreads as being by Gordon D Cooper. It is not by him at all, but is by the English author Gordon Cooper and was published by the Oxford University Press in I971. I liked this book very much. Told simply and straightforwardly, it is the story of twelve-year old Kate Bassett's initiation into servant-hood at Penrose Farm just before the start of the first world war. It comes with a wealth of detail about country life during those times, but such is the skill of the story-telling that one never feels bogged down by it, only curious and interested. The war, when it arrives, brings great changes in its wake which effect Kate's life (there is a sequel to this book: A Time in a City, similarly wrongly catalogued). It's unfortunate that this book (and its sequel) is out of print as I think children today would get immense pleasure and benefit from reading it and learning about those times in such an enjoyable way.