Lucy Lethbridge often states in Servants that records of servants were hard to find as servants were supposed to remain elusive, yet she is just as elusive as they were. It is very difficult to find concrete information about her, but she has written numerous other works, many of them being history books for children. Some of the history books she has written include Florence Nightingale and Napoleon, which were part of the Usborne Famous Lives series, True Stories of Pirates, and Who Was Ada Lovelace?, which earned her the 2002 Blue Peter Award for nonfiction. Lethbridge obviously has a love for history and is qualified in writing history books, even if the intended audience for most are children.
The thesis of Lethbridge’s novel is that
The thesis of Lethbridge’s novel is that