![]() The boredom, though, is interrupted when a new footman, James Smith, arrives. Sarah scrubs out the Bennet girls' dirty underwear and petticoats, she slops through rain and mud for bows for their shoes, and she slips and falls in hog manure. While it's clear that being a maid has saved her from utter destitution, it's a life that's also dirty, tiring and boring. ![]() In Longbourn, the focus is on Sarah, an orphan and a housemaid to the Bennet girls. It develops the kind of fictional contrast between classes found in such popular television series as Upstairs, Downstairs and, of course, the current hit Downton Abbey. ![]() Longbourn, by Jo Baker, tells the story of Pride and Prejudice from the point of view of the servants who wait on the Bennet family at their titular ancestral home. A recent entry, though, is worth the time of Pride and Prejudice fans, as well as anyone who enjoys historical fiction. ![]()
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