Jan 21, 2020
Did servants suffer from SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder? The Victorian diaries of Mrs Sarah Wells, housekeeper of Uppark and mother to novelist H. G. Wells, reveal the physical and emotional cost of working in subterranean servant quarters. ‘So dark in these underground rooms!’ she wrote in 1892, twelve years into an anxious and exhausting tenure Read more
This is one of an occasional series I’ll be posting about how servants lived in the pre-WW2 years. So much more interesting (and sad) than “Downton Abbey”!
