DROIT DE SEIGNEUR: EDWARDIAN SERVANTS
At Longleat in the 1890's, for example, lunch was announced by a handbell rung in the servant's hall. The lower servants stood until the upper servants sat down. At Welbeck the upper servants dined on fine china in the steward's room, their meals accompanied by wine of good quality.5
Eventually, with the invention of new technology, for example, the typewriter, the rise of feminism and the unions, new and better opportunities became available for working men and women. Good servants became harder and harder to find after about 1900, as more young women chose to work as typewriters or shop assistants, jobs which gave them more freedom and higher pay.
The golden age of the aristocracy was over. 1.Lambert, Angela. Unquiet Souls: The Indian Summer of the British Aristocracy, MacMillan London, 1984, p.146. 2 Ibid., p.144 3.Ibid., p.143 4 Ibid., p.143 5 Hibbert, Christopher. The English: A Social History 1066-1945.Guild Publishing,London. 1989. p.504
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