Depictions of Great Houses
The complex hierarchy of a staff in a great house has been portrayed in several notable productions for film and television. Among these are:
- Backstairs at the White House (miniseries)
- Brideshead Revisited (TV serial)
- Conrad's Fate - Stallery Mansion is a Great House with over a thousand servants.
- Downton Abbey (ITV television series)
- The Edwardian Country House
- Gosford Park
- Mansfield Park
- The Remains of the Day (film)
- Servants (BBC television series)
- Sense and Sensibility (film)
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- You Rang, M'Lord?
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