Re: The S&A Films


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Posted by andyb on September 03, 2006 at 12:04:21 from 81.131.128.98 user beardbiter.

In Reply to: Re: The S&A Films posted by John Giddy on September 02, 2006 at 23:54:10:

"He was almost "family", being Cook's nephew". Doesn't this prove the point?
There are contributors to this board who have a persistent, fundamental and to my mind wilful misunderstanding of class. Class is not the same as accent, manners or mores, although these may be indicators of rank, which is a manifestation of class. Class is to with occupation, property and the relation to the means of production. The Turner/Blacketts live in a large house (we are not told precisely who owned it) employ at least one servant (Cook) and own or have the use of a motorcar, a motor launch etc. CF has not visible income until the success of MM; the GA appears well connected to other inhabitants of large houses in the neighbourhood. From this we may infer that the family has been, in some sense, 'local' for three generations and that they are considered the social equals of, at least some, wealth people in the locality.
Now of course we don't know whether Bob Blackett was the scion of local landowners, industrialists or charcoal burners. If AR had wished he could have made a story out of the lattermost suggestion but unless someone can produce other evidence, from the books, to contradict this, I shall continue to regard arguments suggesting that Nancy and Peggy were anything over than upper-middle (or more probably, lower-upper) class as being simply perverse. Further, I don't see how AR's work is in anyway diminished by recognising this.
andyb


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