more series similar to 'House of Eliott'

The Dutchess of Duke Street (a period BBC drama in which a woman rises from skivvy, to famous cook to to cook of the King of England to owner of a fashionable hotel)it's on VHS and DVD.

A Woman of Substance: an miniseries of a young English maid who rises to run a textile empire. This is available of DVD and VHS. Based on the novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sins (not a strong as the other two, but still fun and another novel adaptation). A young woman goes from maid of a Count to model to head of a magazine empire. In the process she exacts revenge on the Nazi who assaulted her, killed her mother and sent her brother to the camps during the French Occupation.

Hi

If you like the House of Eliott, I agree you'll also really enjoy "Duchess of Duke Street".

Also, you'll probably like "Upstairs Downstairs" if you haven't already seen it. It's not a rag to riches story but 5 really interesting series about a well-to-do British household from about 1905-1930. It was devised by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins like HoE.

You may like "the Forsyte Saga" [granada version and bbc version]
"To let" the second series is based in 1920's english society,the first series is victorian/edwardian.I love this series.


You may also like the "Berkley Square" series set in Edwardian England.

watch Gosford Park - a movie not a series but stunning .... and with Eileen Atkins who wrote HoE as one of the main roles

"The Grand" is very good as well...lots of drama.

Love In a Cold Climate- two versions. First one is better but also longer - but not my knowledge avail on DVD.

And yes, yes, yes to Gosford Park - I have literally watched it 40 times.

I second the Forsyte Saga - both seasons. Very good.

Also Downton Abbey is really good.

I know it's not the same time frame but I really liked Bleak House (the one with Gillian Anderson), Cranford, and Island At War (Island At War is set during WW2).

A Dance to the Music of Time
The Bretts
Bright Young Things (film)