Considering the ever-growing popularity that the television drama Downton Abbey has enjoyed over its three seasons, it would seem appropriate to provide readers with a list of books that would potentially appeal to those who are enamored with the story line, time period, and social changes that are chronicled in this incredibly-detailed series.
Nonfiction
- Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" by Margaret Powell
- Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Fiona, The Countess of Carnarvon
- To Marry an English Lord by Gail MacColl & Carol McD. Wallace
- The Servants' Hall: A Domestic History of a British Country House by Merlin Waterson
- Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance by Margaret Powell
- The World of Downton Abbey by Jessica Fellowes
Fiction
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Howard’s End by E.M. Forster
- The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
- Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
DVD
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