They are the hidden army in what's been called a detested occupation. Throughout the nineteenth century, hundreds of women were in domestic service. But despite large numbers of women working for such a long period of history in mansions and estates of stature and significance, their story is seldom heard. Annie Williams pulls back the curtains on the world of the domestic servant. She has drawn on a number of sources and spoken to many who had direct links with that world, in areas across northern Wales, but mainly in Anglesey. Her book is a revealing insight into the way that women had to work and the way they were treated. It's not the sanitised view given in such popular TV dramas as Downtown Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs. Her account tells it as it really was.
