Best Downton Abbey-esqe books to read

thorold: First of the novels set in Blandings Castle. More "downstairs" detail than the later books.

thorold: Upstairs/downstairs on an estate in Ireland during WWII, almost entirely from the PoV of the servants

thorold: Non-fiction: academic account of how the aristocracy adapted in the 19th and 20th centuries, esp. the period covered by Downton. Lots of good material on servants and houses and American heiresses.

thorold: impoverished aristocrats at the end of WWII