A Bone To Pick With Jane

[poliphilo]

At present we can't just step into the kitchen but have to go into the hall, out through the inner front door, into the garage by a side door and so through the garage (which is very cold) and down a short, dark, passage. It makes me think of the servants in big houses who had to shuttle continuously between the rooms where work got done and the

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[halfmoon_mollie]

I seem to recall servants being mentioned in Pride and Prejudice. Unless you are just talking about kitchen folks.

[lblanchard]

Right. Hill the housekeeper.

Silt Road.

[ron_broxted]

Folks starved a few miles from where she wrote. I never reckoned Austen.

Re: Silt Road.

[mairi_dubh]

American author Taylor Caldwell wrote in her autobiography about her gran or her auntie who had gathered up a heap of old clothing to donate to the poor,busily snipping the buttons from these garments before they were sent off.
She asked her elder relative, why?
Because the buttons could be re-used to mend [household members'] own clothing, the lady answered.
"But...what are the poor to do for buttons?" asked the young girl.
"They can buy them, penny a placket, just like we do," came the tart-toned reply.

Neither Ms. Caldwell nor I have reckoned that one.

RE: Re: Silt Road.

[ron_broxted]

True story of Lord (redacted) who had to economise. His adviser told him that "well, do you realy need a pastry chef?" Lord burst into tears "Good God, has it come to this? That I cannot even have a biscuit?" (He did'nt know that they could be bought. In a shop. Tish boom.

Re: Silt Road.

[poliphilo]

It's a very narrow world she writes about