Just to support your point: forty years after the story is set, into the age of the welfare state, my father had to leave grammar school because my grandfather, who looked after horses in a dairy, had fractured his skull in an accident at work, and the household needed more wages than my grandmother, a housekeeper, could bring in.
Re: We can always blame Maisie Dobbs
Date: 2007-06-04 12:01 pm (UTC)