Yes, neither of my grandmothers, who both married just after the First World War, ever expected to have to learn to cook and to run their own houses, although both succeeded in doing just that (well, one of them turned into an excellent cook; the other, not so much...). One was an Army wife, so literally always had at the very least a batman until my grandfather died in 1950; the other, brought up in "genteel poverty" nevertheless always had at least one maid. After that grandfather died, she was reduced to a daily help twice a week, but managed. Although the fury when the Home she lived in for the last 20 years of her life suddenly asked their residents to clean their own shoes had to be heard to be believed..... she had never done that in her life and was not starting now!
I'm currently re-reading the various Provincial Lady novels (reduced to under £1 on Amazon just now), which if you haven't read I do commend; she, too, is pretty helpless domestically, and when she takes a London flat prefers to eat out in cafés, however revolting, than to try to do her own cooking.
All this to say Pam Marlow was very much a product of her age and time.
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Re: Catkin purchase - why?
Date: 2014-09-30 05:02 pm (UTC)I'm currently re-reading the various Provincial Lady novels (reduced to under £1 on Amazon just now), which if you haven't read I do commend; she, too, is pretty helpless domestically, and when she takes a London flat prefers to eat out in cafés, however revolting, than to try to do her own cooking.
All this to say Pam Marlow was very much a product of her age and time.