Posted by John Wilson on September 06, 2006 at 14:01:54 from 202.154.130.47 user hugo.
In Reply to: Re: Amazons' class (Was The S&A Films posted by Owen Roberts on September 04, 2006 at 17:25:26:
Well I have thought that “gentry” was the right term for the Turners. Re having money:
Pro: CF’s world travel as a passenger cf the trunks (though he twice (SA & ML?) said he had been a cabin boy); the renovation of the house in PP; having a car & launch (& phone, the Tysons haven't one).
Con: Only one servant, Cook (& a girl , in SD I think who is glad to see the GA go); mention (PM) that the Beckfoot lawn is no longer used for croquet.
Virginia Nicholson remarks in “Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939” that it was not until the Second World War that even people on moderate incomes found it hard to afford the minimum of a maid and a charwoman. Several references to AR in the book, as well as Bloomsbury.