It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Keeping Their Place by Pamela Sambrook
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1851 there were over a million servants in Britain. This book reveals first-hand tales of put-upon servants, who often had to rise hours before dawn to lay fires, heat water and prepare meals for their employers, and then work into the small hours. Yet there are also heartwarming stories of personal devotion, and reward, and of how the servants enjoyed themselves in their time off. There are moments of great poignancy as well as hilarity: a steward's dawning realisation that the housekeeper he befriended is a thief; a young footman chasing a melon as it rolls through a castle's corridors...
Keeping Their Place by Pamela Sambrook is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Keeping Their Place aloud.
Keeping Their Place is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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