The Lifestyle of Julia Ogden (Season 8 spoilers)

[Hodge]

Mar 21, 2015 17:41:53 GMT lovemondays said:

Mar 20, 2015 15:25:09 GMT Hodge said:

Julia had a maid in HM,M!

I believe the maid worked for the hotel, IMO.

She wasn't at the hotel though ... unless it was a different hotel.

[snacky]

Mar 21, 2015 23:06:46 GMT Fallenbelle said:

Mar 21, 2015 17:41:53 GMT lovemondays said:

Also, the bell rings, and twice Emily goes to answer the door.  That makes it seem like a house to me.  

If Julia did have servants even after she divorced Darcy, that raises very interesting questions about lifestyle sacrifices she made to live wwigh William. Yet her hair is still perfect...?

[Hodge]

Mar 22, 2015 0:46:17 GMT snacky said:

Mar 21, 2015 23:06:46 GMT Fallenbelle said:

Also, the bell rings, and twice Emily goes to answer the door.  That makes it seem like a house to me.  

If Julia did have servants even after she divorced Darcy, that raises very interesting questions about lifestyle sacrifices she made to live wwigh William. Yet her hair is still perfect...?

I don't see what sacrifices she made as they're living at a hotel where there are still 'servants'.

[snacky]

Mar 22, 2015 0:58:58 GMT Hodge said:

Mar 22, 2015 0:46:17 GMT snacky said:

If Julia did have servants even after she divorced Darcy, that raises very interesting questions about lifestyle sacrifices she made to live wwigh William. Yet her hair is still perfect...?

I don't see what sacrifices she made as they're living at a hotel where there are still 'servants'.

Because they can't come in to take care of Julia's intimate dressing needs without disrupting William's morning routine. I suppose Julia is now going to a hotel hair salon that may offer ever dressing services on the side.

[Hodge]

Mar 22, 2015 1:57:24 GMT snacky said:

Mar 22, 2015 0:58:58 GMT Hodge said:

I don't see what sacrifices she made as they're living at a hotel where there are still 'servants'.

Because they can't come in to take care of Julia's intimate dressing needs without disrupting William's morning routine. I suppose Julia is now going to a hotel hair salon that may offer ever dressing services on the side.

Perhaps he gets ready first then they help Julia.

[lovemondays]

Mar 22, 2015 2:03:45 GMT Hodge said:

Mar 22, 2015 1:57:24 GMT snacky said:

Because they can't come in to take care of Julia's intimate dressing needs without disrupting William's morning routine. I suppose Julia is now going to a hotel hair salon that may offer ever dressing services on the side.

Perhaps he gets ready first then they help Julia.

Or there is a dressing room that the maid can enter from the hallway, leaving the bedroom free for Wm.  It would make sense that a swanky hotel would have such provisions for their clientele to bring their maid and valet when travelling extensively.  

[snacky]

Mar 22, 2015 13:17:03 GMT lovemondays said:

Mar 22, 2015 2:03:45 GMT Hodge said:

Perhaps he gets ready first then they help Julia.

Or there is a dressing room that the maid can enter from the hallway, leaving the bedroom free for Wm.  It would make sense that a swanky hotel would have such provisions for their clientele to bring their maid and valet when travelling extensively.  

Another reason this is a great solution for the "feminism" of the era is that Charlotte Perkins Gilman argued that all services, not just kitchen work, should be handled by professional staff and not smuggled under the pseudo-paternal structure of the household. Living in a hotel would enable that. The servants would be able to organize for regularized wages and work in a public environment that would show their working conditions. At the same time their work performance would be on display, and they could develop a professional reputation and have more job mobility. Julia would be down with supporting that.