ENG 2132 Lecture Notes - Vladislav Delay, Kodak, Joseph Chamberlain
28 Feb 2014
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The family had a small (not very successful) shop, and the family income was augmented by wells" father"s income as a professional cricketer. When the father (joseph) broke is leg it meant hard times financially and the mother (sarah) sought employment from a former employer; she had been a housemaid at uppark before her marriage and now (1880) was hired as housekeeper. Sarah"s employment there is significant for a number of reasons. One is the obvious social gap between aristocratic employers and servants. Another is the fact that the kitchens and some other buildings were separate from the main house. The house if quite exposed to the elements. Consequently they had underground tunnels running from the kitchens to the main buildings which were used by the servants to bring meals to the aristocracy. (the tunnels had ventilation shafts. ) Uppark also had a large library, and wells availed himself of it during his stays with his mother.
