A Countess Below Stairs is a 1981 British historical romance novel by Eva Ibbotson. It follows the story of Anna Grazinsky, a Russian countess, after World...

with teenage audiences. Three are The Secret Countess (originally published as A Countess Below Stairs), A Company of Swans, and Magic Flutes (in some...

for the adult market, of which A Song for Summer was the last. This novel and four others (A Countess Below Stairs, A Company of Swans, The Reluctant...

the main antagonist of Eva Ibbotson's 1981 historical romance A Countess Below Stairs Muriel Heslop, lead character in the 1994 Australian film Muriel's...

The Secret of Platform 13 is a children's novel by Eva Ibbotson, and illustrated by Sue Porter, first published in 1994. The book has gained extra significance...

when a wizard named Arriman the Awful, living in Darkington Hall, decides to choose a wife from his hometown of Todcaster; his ulterior motive is a prophecy...

Lille, the governess to a Russian family, the Keminsky's, Maia's friends Sergei and Olga and their parents, the Count and Countess Keminsky. However, Maia...

is a children's book written by Eva Ibbotson. It was also published under the title Island of the Aunts. It was a Publishers Weekly bestseller and a School...

The Star of Kazan (2004) is a novel by Eva Ibbotson. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal....

The Morning Gift is a bestselling novel by English author Eva Ibbotson, based on her own experience as a refugee. The story is set during the prelude and...

A Company of Swans is a historical romance novel published in 1985 by Eva Ibbotson. The book is dedicated to Patricia Veryan. Harriet Morton lives in...

The Abominables is a children's novel by Austro-British children's writer Eva Ibbotson, published after her death, in 2012. According to WorldCat, the...

Dragonfly Pool is a children's novel written by Austro-British children's writer Eva Ibbotson and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. In a foreword to the book...

a children's novel authored by Eva Ibbotson. It was published by Macmillan in 1975 and was Ibbotson's first published novel. The story deals with a ghost...

Beasts of Clawstone Castle is a 2005 children's fantasy book by Eva Ibbotson. The plot concerns the theft of wild cattle from a Scottish borders castle, and...

Children's literature portal The Haunting of Hiram C. Hopgood is a children's novel written in 1987 by Eva Ibbotson. The novel was published in the United...

A Glove Shop in Vienna: And Other Stories is a collection of short stories for young adults by Eva Ibbotson. The book was first published in 1984 by Century...

Dial-a-Ghost is a 1996 children's novel written by Eva Ibbotson and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. The plot follows an orphan named Oliver who inherits Helton...

Saxe-Gotha. Her portrait was painted by William Hoare of Bath. 'The household below stairs: Clerks of the Green Cloth 1660-1782', Office-Holders in Modern Britain:...

(Raymond) Stockbridge and Commander Anthony Meredith; her aunt Constance, Countess of Trentham; the Hon. Freddie and Mabel Nesbitt; actor Ivor Novello and...

become a secretary is the cause of much discussion above and below stairs. Lady Sybil quickly befriends Gwen and tries to help her get a job as a secretary...

turns.” They disappear into the darkness. Irma and Roderick come down the stairs. Aurelia asks him to close and lock the heavy door, leaving the key with...

a male, but the cast of the film and the actor who played Oliver in the source material expressed interest in a female version of the character in a sequel...

in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1766) Lovel in High Life Below Stairs by James Townley (1767) Charles in The Jealous Wife by George Colman...

devise a charade (with the help of the butler) so that Moxie may meet her sister as an equal. Moxie is subsequently moved from 'below stairs' (with the...

illuminated the high table. The undercroft below the great hall was used for the storage of wine, beer and food, and had stairs on each corner going up to the great...

Saigon The White Countess (2005), directed by James Ivory, tells the story of a Russian countess (Natasha Richardson) who works as a taxi dancer in Shanghai...

Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnell (née Jennings, previously Hamilton; c. 1649 – 1731), also called La Belle Jennings, was a maid of honour to the...

location of the ITV/PBS television series Downton Abbey. The below-stairs scenes were filmed on a set in London, since Highclere's basement is the home of...

a remarkable collection of antique furniture, enamels, carved ivory, jewelry, metalwork, glass, ceramics, books, textiles and paintings. The Countess...