Comments on: Female servants in the English households https://englandspuzzle.com/female-servants-in-the-english-households/ Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gizella https://englandspuzzle.com/female-servants-in-the-english-households/#comment-108 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:32:00 +0000 https://englandspuzzle.com/?p=6581#comment-108 In reply to Julian Whipple.

Oh God, yes! For some reason we keep on fantasising about the Victorian and Edwardian era and we tend to have a magical olde worlde picture in our head – probably thanks to Dickens’s Christmas Carol. But the reality is that life was very hard and cruel for the majority.

]]> By: Julian Whipple https://englandspuzzle.com/female-servants-in-the-english-households/#comment-100 Mon, 20 Dec 2021 23:58:38 +0000 https://englandspuzzle.com/?p=6581#comment-100 Good job enlisting Daisy’s help. I grieve for all of these different maidservants. I hadn’t realised how difficult their lives were. Thank you.

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