All but the poorest households employed servants, who usually lived in, sleeping in attics, kitchens and basements. Pay was low but included their keep and often their clothing. Work was hard and hours long.
I met my editor, the lovely Lucy Icke, in the elegant surroundings of The Rose Lounge at the Sofitel St James yesterday.
Carole Mathews and I had to laugh when we both arrived at the ball wearing identical boleros over black dresses and gold boleros! We enjoyed a glass of bubbles with Rouge Romance. The ball was a glittering occasion to raise funds for children and teenagers with heart conditions – a very worthy cause. After our three …
I’ve had a fabulous time at the Festival of Romance held at lovely Hunton Park Hotel and returned home today with my head buzzing with ideas.
If only they’d had antibiotics in the seventeenth century, the course of Susannah’s life in The Apothecary’s Daughter would have been very different.