Posted by PeterH on September 05, 2006 at 09:18:54 from 86.130.125.150 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Amazons' class (Was The S&A Films posted by Prue Eckett on September 05, 2006 at 02:42:21:
I am not sure that I'd attach too much class significance to the form of address 'Miss Ruth'. In those days, children were addressed, formally, as 'Miss' and 'Master'. I can clearly remember getting birthday cards when a young boy, addressed to 'Master Peter . . .' Admittedly, I wouldn't have expected a policeman to address me thus - more likely just 'Oi!' The test would be whether Sammy would have addressed Jacky Warriner as 'Master Jacky'. That we will never know.
With the proviso that we just don't know about BB either, I nevertheless like Prue's theory that he was a Westmorland or Cumberland yeoman farmer. 'Blackett' is a name found in those counties, across the classes. He would have given Nancy her instinct to 'get stuck in'. And certainly Maria Turner would not have approved of her niece marrying a farmer. And while we're at it, what's the theory on Molly Blackett's mother and father. Mrs B must have been still under 40 in S&A, surely? Parents 60-ish. Where are they?