Mary Lib Saleh Euless Public Library discussion

Downton Abbey is an addictive British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants. Try these fiction and non-fiction titles about the Edwardian era, estates, WWI and British society.

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Fiction

Ashenden by Elizabeth Wilhide
The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Cavendon Hall by Barbara Taylor
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Billbons
The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The Governess of Highland Hall by Carrie Turansky
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Habits of the House, Long Live the King, The New Countess by Fay Weldon
The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
The House of Eliottby Jean Marsh
Howards End by E.M. Forster
Longbourn by Jo Baker
Park Lane by Frances Osborne
The Passing Bells by Phillip Rock
The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
Summerset Abbey, A Bloom in Winter and Spring Awakening by Teri Brown
Tyringham Park by Rosemary McLoughlin


Non Fiction

Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" by Margaret Powell
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants by Alison Maloney
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson
Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison
Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times by Lucy Lethbridge
Upstairs & Downstairs: The Illustrated Guide to the Real World of Downton Abbey by Sarah Warwick
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey
The Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago by Jacky Hyams
The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes
The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine
The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm by J. Nicolson
To Marry an English Lord: Or How Anglomania Really Got Started by Gail MacColl
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund