Auguste Schlüter
Auguste Schlüter (27 June 1849 – Autumn 1917) was a German Empire domestic servant and biographer. Her memoirs were titled ''A Lady's Maid in Downing Street''. Biography Auguste Schlüter was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, 27 June 1849. Her life changed when she was seventeen as she was in England where she was employed by the politician and Prime Minister William and Catherine Gladstone. Schlüter did not speak much English but she decided to keep a diary as she worked as a maid looking after two of her employer's daughters, Mary and Helen Gladstone. She published her memoirs as ''A Lady's Maid in Downing Street''. The book gives an interesting view of upper class life although critics observed that Schlüter was living at the centre of government but only small details of world events made it into her book. One source says that the memoirs were published in 1884 whilst another says 1919. 1885 was an important year as Mary Gladstone married and she became Catherine Gladstone' ...
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Hanover State
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and has a population of about 791,000 (2018). The Hanover Region has approximately 1.16 million inhabitants (2019). The city lies at the confluence of the River Leine and its tributary the Ihme, in the south of the North German Plain, and is the largest city in the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen and Bremen. Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hannover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636–1692), the Electorate of Hanover (1692–1814), the Kingdom of Hannover (1814†...
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