Pamela Horn, author of the acclaimed The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant, explores the life and social round of the wives and daughters of the landed aristocracy and gentry from the 1830s to the end of the First World War: what was expected of them and the reality of their daily existence. Fully illustrated and based largely on the diaries, letters, personal accounts and reminiscences of the women concerned, this is a fascinating record of landed society seen, unusually, from the feminine perspective.