An eye opening documentary about how an Edwardian Manor house was run. Oh how much the world has changed since then! And I can’t say in a bad way either.
The servants, bless their hearts had a very difficult life. I wonder that they survived it. Work and more work and hardly a moment to call their own. It would have been a wonderful holiday to be sent into town to do shopping or something just to get out of the house. And the smallest infraction would get you sent packing and someone else would eagerly take your place.
Now the masters of the house seemed to have lived an almost idyllic life.
That is unless you were a woman who had a hankering to become a marine biologist or something. Seems like there were lots of things you could do, as long as they were considered “domestic”. I wonder if the women of the day were allowed to read what they liked. I think I would have gone to GREAT lengths to find a way to read what I fancied. Even the unorthodox and subversive, whatever that might have been in the day.
It’s so hard to look back really and know what one would do. Because we have all been raised with such a different mind set and different world views. Makes you wonder how the “restrictions” of our own time are effecting Us. Even though it seems like anything goes, maybe that’s not true at all. OR perhaps people 100 years from now will look back on us as incredibly decadent. Hmmm, this seems more likely.
Let’s see. There was the 1900 House, The Pioneer one, and this one, I think there was one other, I can’t remember. All of them are very thought provoking and I recommend them all to you if you get a chance to watch them.
Now there’s a rarity, me recommending television !