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That poor young woman. I truly hope she had good life after all that and I honestly admire the heck out of her. It's very rare to find anyone with such a strong conscience.
A potentially good outcome for her, if she did regain get her old position. Though there’s something left unexplained in leaving a job without another to go to and seemingly no support.
@@mauricedavis2160 You actually have the gall to compare modern wages and working conditions with those of the working poor in Victorian London??? That's self-pity taken to utter absurdity ... smdh ........
Courts were really tough back then and they loved nothing better than to throw someone into a workhouse. Even though her age and her good looks might have been an influence on the judge and her employer, I believe it was her sincere honesty that really won them over. Mercy comes from a spiritual place. They must have been able to discern her spirit. I wonder how her life played out in full. Hopefully, she was able to pay it forward.
One of the things with employing servants was that it was against the law for them to go on strike, which made it difficult to get better pay and working conditions. Interestingly railway employees were also classed as servants to the railway companies for the same reason. But in this case it did not have the same results as railway employees did go on strike and the railways did not invoke the notion that as servants what they were doing was illegal in case it inflamed the situation and would make thinks worse. After WW1 many of them left service to get better jobs. This meant many households were struggling to find servants. A situation made worse by the fact that they could not match the increase in pay many former servants were now receiving. They even tried to get the government of the day to force unemployed servants to return to service, but to no avail.
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I always enjoy your videos. They have a knack of making me stop and think. Your narration is enjoyable from the beginning to end - of course, your heavenly accent does help enormously! This story is really unusual but it certainly goes to show that the young lady in question had a good upbringing and he only downfall was that moment of madness, brought on by desperation. I hope that she went on to live a fulfilling life. We all do like a happy ending.
Mr. Banks: Well, really - yes, of course. And you brought your references, I presume; may I see them? Mary Poppins: Oh, I make it a point never to give references. a very old-fashioned idea, to my mind.
The temptations must have been very hard to turn the other way, especially when you have nothing, the hours they worked was very long and hard and very little in the way of monetary.what a miserable life.makes me wonder what I would have been tempted to do ??
We went to visit a C17 small manor house recently.There were several stories of restless spirits & one was heartbreaking.A young boy who worked in the house,was hungry enough to steal some bread to eat,but was seen in the act.His master was known to be a hard vindictive man.When the boy heard his master would soon be returning,he was so afraid of what punishment he might get,that he hung himself.The master was harsh to his family,so what he would've done to that poor lad,who felt death was the better option,is not a pleasant thought.
The people who were better-off often felt that poor people deserved to be poor, that if they were willing to work they would not be poor. I can't imagine how that works out in their collective opinion.
In the 1910s up to 1914, my granddad's parents and his aunt and uncle who he ended up living with both had either a maid but not a live in maid I don't think.
I wonder why she left her job in the first place and why she returned to visit and stole the silver spoons? It was stupid of her to do that and even stupider to do all that she subsequently went on to do. Surprising that her old Master told the Court that he wanted to give her back her job. She was young and beautiful, could that have been the problem? Perhaps she thought she was pregnant and stole the spoons to pay for an abortion but it was a false alarm and then came her irrational guilt and crazy attempts at restitution.
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel we appreciate your great efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students but really it’s very sad period of time victorian age was dark ages especially for poor miserable people from lower class as always iam gathering key points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s female maids work in houses to sew , empty chamber pots , dust haul water for bath , light fire house keeper title “ missus” maid helping her mistress with appearance including make up hairdressing clothing , jewelry shoes unfortunately at that time victorian houses have mistreatment of servants common place young maids especially vulnerable to being sexually sex exploited . Once hired they found themselves in households in which strict and unreachable hierarchy blew stairs . Pick pocketing as practiced. Great majority of female domestic servants did get married of course.
The best way for a girl to get into the best homes for employment was for them to have a parent or relative help them get a position. Often they started out as a scullery maid or laundress, but with hard work they could work up to a chamber maid or kitchen maid, which would lead to the job of cook. If they had some education and skills in sewing they might even become a ladie's maid.
the brutal class system was to blame for most crimes committed in those days & still is & the courts system is still profiting from peoples misfortune never mind justice or equality
She could simply have been a tremendous con artist? The judge was apparently known to be more lenient and partial to a sob story, she’s good looking and had strong Christian moral virtues (allegedly) I believe she played them all, the master of the house wanted her back because she was young and attractive, the judge fell for the act, she played a part and won. If it sounds to good to be true…that’s because it is.
Yes. She returned to the house not to confess but to pinch something else and she may have been accidentally stuck in that cellar when she was on the rob.
Last and most important part of my research workhouses punishment included sending people to refractory ward for children slap with rod and offenses in some cases jailed for period of time house keepers sleep near maid servants female head cook slept near kitchen they servants both male and female work since six in the morning till ten o’clock in the evening they not allowed to leave without permission. Day off they have one day off a month there are Kate Webster victorian maid who boiled her mistress Julia Martha in year 1879 horrific crime chopped head from body with razor cut her body to pieces throw head nd foot in Thames River foot soon was found in rubbish . Thank you giving us chance to read learn new information stay safe blessed best wishes for you your family friends
Other than being told they were pawned by the maid for less than market value, we’re left in the dark. I suppose, after six weeks, they could have been sold and disappeared before the police became involved.
I've not finished this video and the guilt trip being described is just batsh*t. I don't know if she is making it up or not, but if she isn't she needs a freaking therapist.
No, we should eat the poor because there are more of them. A diet consisting of the rich will leave us starving in no time. 😉 Jokes aside, someone (the name escapes me) said: the rich can not live without the poor, and the poor can not live without the rich. Makes sense to me.
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That poor young woman. I truly hope she had good life after all that and I honestly admire the heck out of her. It's very rare to find anyone with such a strong conscience.
A potentially good outcome for her, if she did regain get her old position. Though there’s something left unexplained in leaving a job without another to go to and seemingly no support.
@@FactFeast it was probably a man. A potential marriage that didn't work out.
@@danniis9444 I can't imagine a woman quitting her job for marriage until after the marriage has taken place.
@@danniis9444always a mans fault
She ought to have been sentenced to a living wage, and decent working conditions.
Her, what about us now, same issue!!!🙏🤔
@@mauricedavis2160 That's what I'm saying!
@@mauricedavis2160 You actually have the gall to compare modern wages and working conditions with those of the working poor in Victorian London??? That's self-pity taken to utter absurdity ... smdh ........
lol... yep, socialist fantasy
@@hilariousname6826 I was thinking the same, there's no comparison.
Courts were really tough back then and they loved nothing better than to throw someone into a workhouse. Even though her age and her good looks might have been an influence on the judge and her employer, I believe it was her sincere honesty that really won them over. Mercy comes from a spiritual place. They must have been able to discern her spirit. I wonder how her life played out in full. Hopefully, she was able to pay it forward.
Poor woman. So glad the family took her back. What a rare gem of a person.
One of the things with employing servants was that it was against the law for them to go on strike, which made it difficult to get better pay and working conditions. Interestingly railway employees were also classed as servants to the railway companies for the same reason. But in this case it did not have the same results as railway employees did go on strike and the railways did not invoke the notion that as servants what they were doing was illegal in case it inflamed the situation and would make thinks worse.
After WW1 many of them left service to get better jobs. This meant many households were struggling to find servants. A situation made worse by the fact that they could not match the increase in pay many former servants were now receiving. They even tried to get the government of the day to force unemployed servants to return to service, but to no avail.
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You have a way of telling a story that deserves a much bigger audience. Superb video. Have really warmed to your channel. Thank you so much for this interesting content.
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I always enjoy your videos. They have a knack of making me stop and think. Your narration is enjoyable from the beginning to end - of course, your heavenly accent does help enormously! This story is really unusual but it certainly goes to show that the young lady in question had a good upbringing and he only downfall was that moment of madness, brought on by desperation. I hope that she went on to live a fulfilling life. We all do like a happy ending.
Thank you …it’s great you enjoy the narration! I hope the offer made to the maid in court was honoured.
Mr. Banks: Well, really - yes, of course. And you brought your references, I presume; may I see them?
Mary Poppins: Oh, I make it a point never to give references. a very old-fashioned idea, to my mind.
Mr Banks: “Is that so, we’ll have to see about that then won’t we.”
The seemingly resolute pains of conscience are at times overruled by abject poverty and it’s attendant hunger.
The good old days.
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The temptations must have been very hard to turn the other way, especially when you have nothing, the hours they worked was very long and hard and very little in the way of monetary.what a miserable life.makes me wonder what I would have been tempted to do ??
We went to visit a C17 small manor house recently.There were several stories of restless spirits & one was heartbreaking.A young boy who worked in the house,was hungry enough to steal some bread to eat,but was seen in the act.His master was known to be a hard vindictive man.When the boy heard his master would soon be returning,he was so afraid of what punishment he might get,that he hung himself.The master was harsh to his family,so what he would've done to that poor lad,who felt death was the better option,is not a pleasant thought.
Susan was that Aston Hall ?
The people who were better-off often felt that poor people deserved to be poor, that if they were willing to work they would not be poor. I can't imagine how that works out in their collective opinion.
The equated being poor with some sort of moral failing. It's ridiculous.
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It’s why low wage workers often steal, sadly.
I dont blame the girl they was very poorly paid
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Stealing a stealing but they could give her better working conditions and living conditions.
In the 1910s up to 1914, my granddad's parents and his aunt and uncle who he ended up living with both had either a maid but not a live in maid I don't think.
Very interesting!
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I wonder why she left her job in the first place and why she returned to visit and stole the silver spoons?
It was stupid of her to do that and even stupider to do all that she subsequently went on to do.
Surprising that her old Master told the Court that he wanted to give her back her job.
She was young and beautiful, could that have been the problem?
Perhaps she thought she was pregnant and stole the spoons to pay for an abortion but it was a false alarm and then came her irrational guilt and crazy attempts at restitution.
Stupider?
How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel we appreciate your great efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students but really it’s very sad period of time victorian age was dark ages especially for poor miserable people from lower class as always iam gathering key points about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s female maids work in houses to sew , empty chamber pots , dust haul water for bath , light fire house keeper title “ missus” maid helping her mistress with appearance including make up hairdressing clothing , jewelry shoes unfortunately at that time victorian houses have mistreatment of servants common place young maids especially vulnerable to being sexually sex exploited . Once hired they found themselves in households in which strict and unreachable hierarchy blew stairs . Pick pocketing as practiced. Great majority of female domestic servants did get married of course.
Domestic service was certainly hard work, though it offered a regular income compared to sporadic work. Thank you for your comment.
The best way for a girl to get into the best homes for employment was for them to have a parent or relative help them get a position. Often they started out as a scullery maid or laundress, but with hard work they could work up to a chamber maid or kitchen maid, which would lead to the job of cook. If they had some education and skills in sewing they might even become a ladie's maid.
My great grandmother was a cook and earned half a crown (12 and a half old pence) per week with half day off on a Sunday to attend church.
Poor little things. Wretched existence for the poor.
Lovely but rare nice story from those times .
Glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully she found work again, though we'll probably never know for sure. Thank you for your comment.
the brutal class system was to blame for most crimes committed in those days & still is & the courts system is still profiting from peoples misfortune never mind justice or equality
This was a very good outcome - Dare i say, a very just outcome.
She could simply have been a tremendous con artist? The judge was apparently known to be more lenient and partial to a sob story, she’s good looking and had strong Christian moral virtues (allegedly)
I believe she played them all, the master of the house wanted her back because she was young and attractive, the judge fell for the act, she played a part and won. If it sounds to good to be true…that’s because it is.
Yes. She returned to the house not to confess but to pinch something else and she may have been accidentally stuck in that cellar when she was on the rob.
I say old chap. That was cheerful
Last and most important part of my research workhouses punishment included sending people to refractory ward for children slap with rod and offenses in some cases jailed for period of time house keepers sleep near maid servants female head cook slept near kitchen they servants both male and female work since six in the morning till ten o’clock in the evening they not allowed to leave without permission. Day off they have one day off a month there are Kate Webster victorian maid who boiled her mistress Julia Martha in year 1879 horrific crime chopped head from body with razor cut her body to pieces throw head nd foot in Thames River foot soon was found in rubbish . Thank you giving us chance to read learn new information stay safe blessed best wishes for you your family friends
That's so weird
Don't be mingy w/ the maids 🤔 as long as they are not lazy 😠
How sad. She was determined to make herself suffer as much as possible.
Poor girl!
But, did they get the spoons back?
Other than being told they were pawned by the maid for less than market value, we’re left in the dark. I suppose, after six weeks, they could have been sold and disappeared before the police became involved.
I've not finished this video and the guilt trip being described is just batsh*t. I don't know if she is making it up or not, but if she isn't she needs a freaking therapist.
21stC England
She should have blamed it on Donald Trump they blame him for everything else.
All property is absolute theft.
Eat the rich I say
No, we should eat the poor because there are more of them. A diet consisting of the rich will leave us starving in no time. 😉
Jokes aside, someone (the name escapes me) said: the rich can not live without the poor, and the poor can not live without the rich.
Makes sense to me.
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victorian style
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The maid shown in colour would never have been hired, with such a wrinkled unpressed pinafore!