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Not just 19th century; this persisted well into the 20th as well. Agatha Christie wrote in her autobiography about in post Great War Britain a servant being a

• Ekaros 4y ago
  >They rented a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in London with four bedrooms, two sitting rooms, and a “nice outlook on green.” The space afforded seem pretty substantial. Even if it was fourth floor. That is still 6+ rooms.
  • theluketaylor 4y ago
    Makes it all the more notable she thought they would never afford a car and how much of an inversion we’ve had between the price of manufactured goods and labour in under a century.