"They were called prostitutes because they were not living up to the ideals of not having money and starving to death." Oh the romantic era.
@DeclanMBrennan3 жыл бұрын
Funded by gentlemen who expected their wives to be pure and chaste while still indulging in their own extra-marital recreations.
@cmm55422 жыл бұрын
People seem to forget that while you are starving on the streets, reprobate men will prey on you anyway. So, you might as well get paid for it! I think for myself I would rather starve and at least not be complicit in my own abuse (I'd probably try to murder my first 'client' and end up hanged anyway), but I have no idea how I would actually handle starvation - I don't even handle skipping lunch well! But I could never look down on other girls more practical and less sensitive to ways and means in a desperate situation. At this point, the question is: which is more morally justifiable in an impossible situation which is actually the moral fault of other people: suicide by starvation or forced prostitution? Kind of a moral toss up here anyway.
@lightningbug31897 ай бұрын
@@cmm5542Even beyond being preyed on, you would also just be outside as soon as the rent money ran out. Depending on the time of year, you might die from exposure before your food money ran out. Frost bite or infections from constant dampness would also be a problem if you can't change clothes.
@dolorescordell1292 ай бұрын
@@DeclanMBrennan Not surprising. given the lack of contraceptive. I also suspect that many wives were perfectly happy with their husbands having mistresses or other sexual outlets rather than getting them pregnant every 11 months. The "tyranny of the bedroom." After all, two of Jane Austen's sisters-in-law died shortly after giving birth to their ELEVENTH (!) child.
@gingerhalo3 жыл бұрын
How could gossip from centuries past, about people we didn’t even know existed a short while ago, be this interesting?
@sitcomsTV3 жыл бұрын
gossip is gossip
@valbea99583 жыл бұрын
@@sitcomsTV good point, I love gossip
@ellewelle4013 жыл бұрын
Hahaha, exactly what I thought 'Oooh, hot gossip about a famous writer's family!' even if that gossip is two hundred years old, it is very new to me.
@sarasamaletdin45743 жыл бұрын
Read history books, it’s full of stuff like this!
@karaamundson39642 жыл бұрын
...and yet IT IIIIIIIS
@johnjones_15013 жыл бұрын
I've worked in law enforcement in a community that had a lot of human trafficking. I learned a couple of things about prostitution. Girls who go off to towns where they don't know anyone, to pursue any line of work, especially in a foreign community are especially vulnerable to exploitation, including as sex workers. That said, the belief that certain women, especially migrate women, who are suspected of being prostitutes is far greater than the number who actually engage in such practices. The vast majority of women who are exploited are exploited by employers who rip them off in their house keeping and waitress jobs, and the most common form of exploitation is wage theft, especially with overtime, which the victim is often convinced by her employer does not imply to them, because they are doing contract work. This is why the vast majority of exploited immigrants work for outsourced contracting companies that work multiple properties and clients, like housekeeping, because it is an easier way to rip them off. Most sexual exploitation of these girls does not happen as a result of being forced to work prostitution, but by managers and business owners who threaten to have the girls terminated from their contracts if they do not perform sexual favors to the management. These girls, and many immigrant boys, take out huge loans in their home country in order to pay for travel and the legal fees that come with applying for temporary immigration status, and if they lose their employment they now have massive amounts of debt that they have very little hope of paying off, often in countries where you can be imprisoned for being in debt. This is why so many of them are so vulnerable to exploitation, and such exploitation also makes it extremely difficult to pay off their debt, even with all their long hours, and hard work, and so victims of financial exploitation are much more likely to chose to remain in the States far past their expiration date of their work VISA, in the hopes that they can make enough money to send home that they can pay off their debt. You would actually cut the number of illegal immigrants in the states if you did two things, reduced the government fees that immigrants have to pay to enter the US by about half, and have stronger enforcement and prison sentences for employers who exploit migrants.
@incisivecommenter59743 жыл бұрын
Long,but this☝️☝️!!!
@bofhzerozero7772 жыл бұрын
Amen
@Beepbopboop192 жыл бұрын
Wow thank you for this comment.
@isabellearaujo89912 жыл бұрын
Amazing comment, very informative. Thank you so much for enlightening us in this topic.
@gurutruecrimeguru14052 жыл бұрын
Sad that those things should be easy to do but the US govts both Repuke and Demo won't do it because they don't want to spend the money on more policing or cut the fees.
@DipityS3 жыл бұрын
Philadephia's husband seems an absolute dear, and she suggested coming out to him when her daughter was twelve - so she wasn't living it up big in London without a thought for him - she actually wanted the family to be together. As for your question - I'd have been on that boat before my rich uncle had finished asking me - packed valise and all - running up the gateway plank without a look back.
@carolinaceci88173 жыл бұрын
I totally agree!
@Hfil663 жыл бұрын
Very easy to say, but modern notions of travel would have been very different from the risks of travel at that time. But then I suppose the closeness of death in everyday life at that time made them less risk averse than we might be today.
@mikakestudios58913 жыл бұрын
I want this as the next glorius, period costumed drama miniseries.
@phoebeyang81343 жыл бұрын
Totally! I'm only 7 minutes in to the video but I wonder if the aunt became a famous fashion designer / dressmaker and that's why she was invited to court.
@floraposteschild41843 жыл бұрын
For an alternate view, there's A Harlot's Progress (2006), for a story about a woman in not as advantageous a position, in a slightly earlier era.
@ellewelle4013 жыл бұрын
Shame that 'Becoming Jane' left all this out, ain't it? ;-)
@kenna1632 жыл бұрын
Strange how one sibling has an ordinary name like George and the other is named Philadelphia. It's like when Catherine De Medici named her son Hercules.
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
😂 Their parents were just feeling extra creative the day she was born. 😂
@edithengel22842 жыл бұрын
People in that period were more likely to give a child a name with religious or spiritual meaning than they are now. Philadelphia comes from the Greek words for brotherly love. George and Philadelphia Austen had a half-niece who was also named Philadelphia (Walter).
@katrinaquezada423 жыл бұрын
In my town it was a dry cleaners on Main Street that was never open and all the clothes on the racks in the front windows were covered in cobwebs and dust and clearly from the 80s.
@clareyzhbk73 жыл бұрын
😯😯 that’s incredibly odd yet mysterious
@daisukidatotoro3 жыл бұрын
That last question was like the worst "Choose your own Adventure" option ever: Do you choose to ruin your health and toil away in the bondage of millinery? If so turn to page 76. Or do you choose to sail to India for the prospects of marriage and a better life? Turn to page 14. Like what masochist says "I'm gonna go with option 1? Life is a trap of dark misery, but at least I can make a hat."
@iloveprivacy81673 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily masochism: 6 months on a boat would have it's own risks, India has malaria and other illnesses that she would be unprepared for - & she was basically unaccompanied, right? (Thus, higher risk of rape.) It had a higher potential upside (& I'm glad it worked out for her!), but lots of people would choose millinery. Better the evils you know.
@daisukidatotoro3 жыл бұрын
@@iloveprivacy8167 I had more meant who would choose option 1 based on the way she had *phrased* the choices. Personally, I don't know that I would have wanted to go be a stranger in a strange land.
@AdrianColley3 жыл бұрын
Millinery had its own special health risk: mercury poisoning. The dangers of handling mercury weren't appreciated at the time. The phrase "mad as a hatter" emerged from the sad consequences.
@gkelly9413 жыл бұрын
The threatof mercury poisoning, as in "mad as a hatter," had to do with making hats from fur felt, particularly men's hats, and may not have been particularly dangerous for milliners, but as noted, he work was poorly paid drudgery.
@TooLateForIeago3 жыл бұрын
"Apprenticeship:" it never fails to amaze me how often slavery was tolerated even after its ban in 1833.
@jediping3 жыл бұрын
FYI the sound on this appears to have ended up all on the left side. Was wondering why I couldn’t hear anything with just the right ear bud in. :)
@josephlim68543 жыл бұрын
I noticed the same thing!
@kmbrlyj70513 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I was about to cry about having to buy a new headset.
@artesiandifferent3 жыл бұрын
Haha, the left ear on my headphones is broken... I will forever wonder what this video would have been like. :(
@JimCullen3 жыл бұрын
@@artesiandifferent you could switch from headphones to external speakers. Or use the settings to set your audio to "mono" so that it automatically sends both channels to both ears.
@kcjd86593 жыл бұрын
I thought it was just me and my ancient earbuds!
@austen2533 жыл бұрын
This is SOO fascinating, I had never even heard of Philadelphia Austen before this! Thank you Ellie for always providing the DEEP Georgian/Regency cuts, I wish I had found your channel two years ago when I was dramaturging a Pride and Prejudice stage adaptation. So many good references, and such great, elegant explanations of the craziness that was social life in the 18th and 19th centuries! I also find the language around prostitution from this time so fascinating as an artifact of historical misogyny... "addicted to prostitution" in particular is such a mind-blowing turn of phrase.
@AdrianColley3 жыл бұрын
Right? It's as if the writer feared that the word "prostitution" didn't carry enough intrinsic moral condemnation, so it needed some emphasis. It's Victorian outrage in embryo.
@cmm55422 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the 'addicted' word was actually meant to draw a distinction between girls who HAD to become prostitutes and girls who WANTED to become prostitutes? This is total speculation, but I've always felt there's such incomprehensible unreasonable stigma against prostitutes, even today, when they have no other CHOICE in making a living. Can EVERYONE in an entire society be unaware of this? Or was their moral outrage directed more at the women who DIDN'T need to become prostitutes, who had other options of making a living and were just into or 'addicted to' casual sex? The type of girls who nowadays would just sleep around and have a bunch of one-night stands for fun WITHOUT even getting paid for it? Of course the only way you could do that back then WAS to become a prostitute - a 'gentlewoman' could have a discreet affair or a working woman become a kept mistress, but it was still committment to one person for an extended time; only prostitute women could really sleep around. Again, pure speculation and not that it matters anyway: either way, the idea of women 'addicted' to prostitution, whether it had any basis in fact or not, hurt a lot of innocent abused girls who were only prostitutes because they had no choice. It's beyond cruel.
@foxcat68113 жыл бұрын
Have you read Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens? His sister is sent to a milliners to be a apprentice and finds herself in a situation that's surprisingly frank about sexual harassment and bullying in the work place of a milliner's. It's very similar to what you were talking about.
@laurapalmer77593 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about that while listening to this video👍 nice spotting
@cmm55422 жыл бұрын
Dickens was very vocal about calling out social wrongs and hypocrisy of his era. We probably owe more to him than we realize.
@theguest33893 жыл бұрын
My grandfather was in a situation like that with a cobbler. He was badly abused and starved. In fact he never ever spoke to his mother again because of it. Before that he loved his mother deeply. That's how bad that was. So that something aweful could have happened during that time is completely plausible. Take care and have fun!!! 😷😎😷
@ExploreWinnipeg3 жыл бұрын
The dislike is from the lady who spread rumours about Warren Hastings and Philadelphia.
@bookmouse27193 жыл бұрын
lol!
@VelociQueen3 жыл бұрын
She has survived these odd 250 years through malice alone
@rbck88262 жыл бұрын
@@VelociQueen evil never truly dies...
@VelociQueen2 жыл бұрын
@@rbck8826 exactly how I am still around, even after 480 years. Or was it 580? I can't remember anymore.
@InThisEssayIWill...3 жыл бұрын
Not to be a Debbie downer, but... If no one cared enough to ensure she had an education to provide her with governess work... And they were willing to put her into indentured servitude... At the very least that had to be quite the blow to her self esteem. And there's never any shortage of people willing to take advantage of the vulnerable. Tldr; people are trash, poor young Philadelphia.
@EllieDashwood3 жыл бұрын
It really must have been hard. ☹️ I think it is more likely the relatives she was staying with didn’t have the financial resources to give her that education. Just because a family is of a certain class doesn’t mean they’re necessarily wealthy. (Think of Miss Bates trying to raise Jane Fairfax in Emma.) So other relatives stepped in to try to help her in the way they could by paying for an apprenticeship (which was a form of education still rather than just servitude. It did teach a marketable skill. Which is why it cost the family money, it was an educational investment. It would be similar to teaching a boy to be a blacksmith so that he could support himself later.) or a trip to India (perhaps they saw that Philadelphia hated millinery and wanted to give her a way out). Philadelphia was always close and fond of her family, so it doesn’t seem like she blamed them with any negligence for doing the best they could.
@dorothywillis13 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I never thought much of that uncle.
@julijakeit3 жыл бұрын
never was, never will stop to be... unfortunately. Victim-blaming before it was named so.
@cmm55422 жыл бұрын
As a teacher in the UK where apprenticeships are still quite popular, I'd like to offer an alternate view here. Not everyone enjoys or is capable of excelling in academia: I have known so many students who feel absolutely tortured in school and cannot WAIT to get out and learn a manual trade. Their self-esteem is absolutely in the gutter for the whole of their school life, pressured to achieve in a field they hate: and then when I meet these students again a few months into their apprenticeship, they are so much happier and their self-esteem radically improved. So there is the possibility that Philadelphia was just not academic and would have PREFERRED a trade. And her family cared enough about her to see that she was at least on track to excel in her own way? Sure, conditions were not always good for apprentices, but they also weren't reliably good for students and governesses either. No one would have thought it was in the least equivalent to indentured servitude - at least not any more than Jane Fairfax thought being a governess would be! And this is coming from a super-academic teacher who would have LOVED being a governess!
@dorothywillis1 Жыл бұрын
@@cmm5542 I agree, but I want to comment on your final sentence. Whether a governess was happy in her work depended on many things, including the personality of the governess. For a quick look at the life of a governess, I would recommend Charlotte Bronte's letters to her friend Ellen where she gives specifics of her life as a governess. I would also recommend Charlotte's sister Anne's "Agnes Grey." We are told that Anne was relatively happy when she was a governess, but "Agnes Grey" tells a shocking story.
@mbeebaker67493 жыл бұрын
They settled in Paris in the late 1770's and were looking for a husband for Elizabeth amoung the French aristocracy. Oh, that's not good! 😳😬 With the gift of historical hindsight I hope that doesn't work out and they go back to England before May 5, 1789. France wasn't a very healthy place for aristocrats around that time. With all the guillotine related deaths happening and all. Very interesting video Ellie, I hadn't heard this story before.
@ElizabethJones-pv3sj3 жыл бұрын
I think having connections in England should hopefully make it easier to get out in the early part of the revolution but yes, I did think the late 18th century is not a healthy time to be in France if you have any sort of connections to wealth and/or power.
@angelatheriault88553 жыл бұрын
Uh yeah, you may want to stay tuned!
@josephlim68543 жыл бұрын
@@ElizabethJones-pv3sj yup made me think of SCARLET PIMPERNEL!
@sarasamaletdin45743 жыл бұрын
I don’t know how this goes but married to the aristocracy doesn’t seem likely for her class. Aristocracy married aristocracy, even in Austen’s books nobody who marries to a bigger fortune marries aristocracy. But there would be other eligible gentlemen available.
@giuseppemassari99703 жыл бұрын
Eliza has a Wikipedia page, though I should tell
@OcarinaSapphr-3 жыл бұрын
It’s always *fascinating* to learn more about the Austen’s, because I learnt a couple of years ago that I’m a descendant of one of Jane’s brothers... Love your work!
@ranikster99553 жыл бұрын
Wow that's incredible 😮 do you know which one of the brothers? I am reading about her family
@OcarinaSapphr-3 жыл бұрын
@@ranikster9955 I don’t have the folder to hand, unfortunately...
@AdrianColley3 жыл бұрын
Did you find out when you inherited a distant property in fee tail?
@OcarinaSapphr-3 жыл бұрын
@@AdrianColley No- just my mother’s interest in family history...
@YueshiYang3 жыл бұрын
“Have an awesome day cuz you are awesome’🥺🥺 this always cheers me up!!!! Love your videos so much!!!!
@EllieDashwood3 жыл бұрын
Aw! I’m so glad!!! Thank you so much! 😃😊
@spokenme083 жыл бұрын
Most internships today are unpaid and it's not uncommon to have to pay to be in one (usually through classes). I'd go to India.
@allangibson24083 жыл бұрын
Unpaid internships are illegal in Australia… You have to be paid at least minimum wage.
@spokenme083 жыл бұрын
@@allangibson2408 Interesting. In the U.S. we do have some paid ones and Co-Op's usually paid for full time. Many are part of an educational program or class.You get class credit and hand on experience while they get extra bodies.
@dorothywillis13 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the video and agree with your conclusions. I do think you should read Austen's juvenile work, "Catharine, or The Bower." In the first part of that work we are given the history of one of Catharine's friends. The account of Cecilia Wynne's being sent to India to find a husband I think gives a pretty fair picture of what the Austen family thought of Philadelphia's situation, and it is only the featherbrained Camilla Stanley who thinks of it as an adventure.
@vbrown64453 жыл бұрын
Great video! Always fun to get a glimpse of the life of a woman in the past. And what a great name- Philadelphia! The life of women was so precarious, especially if they didn't have the protection of family/community/connections or money. Glad that things worked out for Philadelphia and it really seems that she lucked out when it came to finding a husband and father for her child. Looking forward to part 2, to see what happened once she and Eliza went to Paris.
@scottlang72713 жыл бұрын
One thing which remains true in all eras of human history: do not live beyond your means. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." - Charles Dickens
@princekrazie3 жыл бұрын
OMG your outfit is sooooo cuuuuute!
@karun_vv71903 жыл бұрын
You are always for excited about history and literature. Always feels nice seeing your soo energetic. why my teacher sound so bored out of her mind when she teaches us British literature. And you helped me a lot thank you . Your videos are great. 👍
@karicorvidae3 жыл бұрын
Anyone think of Irene Maloy in the movie "Hello Dolly"? Her conversation with Minnie Fay about being "suspected of being wicked woman" and owning a millinery shop is sad.
@honnaleigh3 жыл бұрын
That was so interesting! Can’t wait for part 2!
@anghac933 жыл бұрын
I understand the "no one's ever there, must be a drug front" mindset. We have this restaurant in my town that has been opened for well over 20 years and yet, there's never any car there. "how is this place still open?" "must be a drug front". so funny, now I don't feel as bad having these conversations
@Doritstudio3 жыл бұрын
Parts of Philadelphia's story reminds me a lot of the book The House of Mirth. I wonder if Wharton was inspired by it, or if it was simply a common occurrence for young poor women at that time (even almost a century later)
@a353622 жыл бұрын
I've heard that in some places where the cost of housing is ridiculous, some people will rent out a storefront and live there... which is illegal if it's zoned for business. Paper over the windows and make sure nobody finds out you're living in there!
@frigginjerk3 жыл бұрын
Philadelphia Austen reminds me of my great-aunt Hoboken Phillips.
@mch123119693 жыл бұрын
This answered some questions that I have since I am currently reading a biography of Jane Austen
@captainjaneway803 жыл бұрын
Once again superbly done.
@EllieDashwood3 жыл бұрын
Aw! Thank you!!!
@norgefier3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video - I really love your content. Just as a heads up though, your subtitles are running faster than you're speaking. While they do match up to what you say, they're about 3-4 sentences ahead.
@janetkizer59563 жыл бұрын
I remember years ago when I worked at a hairdresser's, that the next door shop went out of business. Someone else started up a business there, or so we thought. They hung a blanket up in the window, and we all waited with baited breath to see what they had been doing behind it. An art gallery, maybe? Months went by. Nothing. I began to jokingly speculate that the place was secretly a drug den. But some took me seriously, so I had to stop my speculations. I told everyone that just because I made up stories to pass the time, it didn't mean I was right. The business never did open, and we never found out what the new place was intended to be. 😉
@tannhauser75843 жыл бұрын
What were you hoping to catch with your "baited" breath.
@janetkizer59563 жыл бұрын
@@tannhauser7584 Well, it was the business next door to us. It didn't look very appealing with a blanket over the window. We were hoping for something interesting to open right next door, which might make the area more attractive to customers, rather than less. That's what we were hoping to catch. Okay?
@tannhauser75843 жыл бұрын
@@janetkizer5956 look up "baited" and "bated" I was making a joke.
@janetkizer59563 жыл бұрын
@@tannhauser7584 I knew that. So what? If there is anything I despise it is internet spelling and grammar nazis who do nothing but comment on mispellings in words, in an attempt to make themselves look so much smarter than someone else. My apologies for using a word that apparently ruined your entire week -- or even more since you're still on about it. A joke? Maybe. But you could have been nicer about it.
@billyb78523 жыл бұрын
@@janetkizer5956 what were you hoping to catch with your bait? It’s a joke about fishing. Clearly it’s touched a sore spot for you regarding your spelling, but spelling mistakes in KZfaq comments is nothing unusual, I find autocorrect is just as likely to make my comment nonsensical as it is to fix it. Having said that, Tannhauser isn’t bullying you by making a joke about fishing.
@lizhart901 Жыл бұрын
I watched this quite awhile ago, but I think I enjoyed it even more this time. Great information, thanks.
@douginorlando62603 жыл бұрын
It appears you found one of Jane Austin’s sources of inspiration! ... For example, the letter describing the danger if young Betsy goes to India sounds so Wickham!, including details of circumstances behind Lydia going to Brighton. Perhaps P&P rings true and relatable throughout generations because it is based on truths in the lives of people Jane cherished in her heart.
@RR-wm9us2 жыл бұрын
I feel the same about a bakery in my neighborhood. You never see any one go in or out. It has very weird hours to be open. But it’s mostly closed. I look at it when I pass by and think 🤔 yup they are money laundering. So I don’t blame you for thinking that.
@ZackRekeSkjell2 жыл бұрын
Philadelphia lived such an interesting life! I am looking forwards to part two!
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
It recently came out! It’s titled: “Regency Story Time: Eliza, Comtesse de Feuillide's Exciting Life | Jane Austen's Cousin.” For some reason YT isn’t letting me post a link to it. I hope you enjoy it though!
@valitaandreita2 жыл бұрын
Amo que tus videos estén subtitulados, muchas gracias por la consideración
@DaisyNinjaGirl3 жыл бұрын
Are you going to do a video on Warren Hastings? Edmund Burke spent _seven years_ trying to impeach the guy. By the time the trial was finished, a full third of the original House of Lords had passed away, and a bunch of the rest hadn't heard all the evidence so couldn't vote on the final decision anyway. Plus Hastings was keen on learning the languages of India and getting on with the natives and stuff like that.
@dolorescordell1292 ай бұрын
Another wonderful video by Ellie! She's a treasure :)
@marietgagliardi2 жыл бұрын
Wow, Philadelphia had a wild life. I would have definitely gone to India. No question. Can't wait to here about Eliza
@charlieenriquez2 жыл бұрын
Wonder why it's just Audio going thru only left earbuds. I love your posts thank you.
@agoodlifemassagetherapywel85242 жыл бұрын
Love your hair and all your videos! Keep up the great work, wishing you all the success!
@myriama.42793 жыл бұрын
It might just be me but I only hear the video on the left side of my headphones! It's a bit distracting though I'm looking forward to watching it!
@sarahrosen49853 жыл бұрын
"Addicted to prostitution" 🤨😡 Women get Addicted to prostitution?! Someone confused the client's drive with the service provider's desperate need for money.
@Becky_Theroux_Gockel3 жыл бұрын
That was so interesting. Can't wait for part 2.Yes, I would go to India if I were her. At that age, I loved to travel. I wish I could have traveled more. My mom and dad traveled when more I was growing up than we were able to take my children on trips. I think our children missed out on a lot because my husband didn't like to travel.
@shannatura2 жыл бұрын
Hi, love the vid! Where is part 2?
@sarasolomon48123 жыл бұрын
Where's part two?! I'm on the edge of my seat here! I could just Google it, but I want to hear it from you. Please post the second video ASAP!
@punkkimiko3 жыл бұрын
I wanna see part 2 so bad x.x I'm so addicted to your channel!
@Felixia333 жыл бұрын
All of your videos are so Interesting! (I laughed out loud when you talked about weird businesses being drug fronts, because I think EXACTLY the same)
@MariaCJ3 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the next one!
@rattlergirl1013 жыл бұрын
Is part 2 going to up!?? ☺️☺️☺️
@maevakeller56533 жыл бұрын
Definitely for a part two!! ❤️
@sydneyallen57883 жыл бұрын
Can you talk about Howl’s Moving Castle? Wasnt Sophie a Milner/hat maker?? Interested in this
@StarlitSeafoam3 жыл бұрын
I'm excited for the next installment!
@uglyhairygirl70673 жыл бұрын
Excited for the pt. 2 :)
@helenatesarova56315 ай бұрын
Ellie, you look so beautiful in this video! I always imagined that if I was a poor gentry girl in the 18th/19th century that I would become a governess (teaching is kind of my thing). But I never wondered what the girls who didn't have the skills or education to become governess did for a living. Thanks for this video. Extremely interesting.
@nattojelly83493 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your channel a lot. You pick interesting topics and you have a lovely aura
@claireconolly83553 жыл бұрын
Is there a 2nd video on this!? I absolutely love this- sooo fascinating to hear her life
@Jill-jb1jg3 жыл бұрын
I think your hair and clothes look really good in this video.
@jeanettemullins2 жыл бұрын
There's a Jigsaw shop in my town that is rarely open and when it is it's empty. They've been there for at least 30 years, probably a lot more. I have no clue how it's still there.
@EllieDashwood2 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 That is 💯 suspicious!
@aygul3863 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the part 2. Would be also interesting to learn about foreigners living in England at that time and Englishmen in Europe.
@jocelyn49813 жыл бұрын
I di love learning all this stuff from you! You're presentation blends formal and casual perfectly!
@Squossifrage3 жыл бұрын
One explanation I've heard for those niche dusty shops that never seem to get any customers is that they're the landlord's day job - so they don't pay rent and they don't need to make much of a profit.
@AdrianColley3 жыл бұрын
I generally dislike the grime and sleaze of Dickens, and the title of this video brought that to mind. It was highly interesting, especially the way in which the exploitation of India changed the limited opportunities for Regency women. But, I'll admit, it was those captivating eyes in the thumbnail that induced me to start watching.
@mrs_mothra5473 жыл бұрын
Listening while working out ❤️ love this vid.
@EllieDashwood3 жыл бұрын
Aw, thank you so much! 💕
@akronam23 жыл бұрын
I just want you to you almost gave me a heart attack 😂. Idk why but this video only plays on one side of my earbuds. So I thought I broke them 😩😩 . They work fine on any other video
@SF-ru3lp6 ай бұрын
Great content, Ellie. Lovely dress and hairstyle. Very jn keeping with the era. I'd love a chair and curtain of the era as a backdrop instead of modern utilitarian office furniture because your presentations are so immersive and atmospheric! XG Ire
@sunsetwinds3 жыл бұрын
So... when are you posting part 2?
@claireconolly83553 жыл бұрын
Still having out for 2nd video... I have been left seriously hanging..... 🙈
@ElliesCozyChronicles3 жыл бұрын
OMG! This was so interesting! I am looking forward to the next video!😍 I think dont't know what I would choose😯, both options are frightening.
@ellyvaughan19382 жыл бұрын
some brick and mortar stores don't rely on in-person customer visits to their store - some places like this may have one large wholesale buyer who is their bread and butter, and maybe they do online orders as well?
@karaamundson39642 жыл бұрын
I adore all your videos! New fan here and I'm binging *hard* ... I'm an English major, MEd in English Literature, and teacher (guess what!) and my only superpower is reading. You're throwing light in every which way on these people and times...thank you! I must say that the videos about Jane's family are really fascinating and unexpected. Grabbin' me by the feels! Keep them coming! Do you have one out about her brother? 📗 💛 📚 💛 📚 💛 📖
@megwilcox97743 жыл бұрын
Philadelphia sounds like a great character for a novel!
@disneydesi14965 ай бұрын
I just scrolled through all of your videos trying to find part 2. I need to know what happened to Philadelphia and Eliza!
@Midorikonokami3 жыл бұрын
Oh boy, her aunt was one HECK of a character, I swear. I love her, she lived her best life.
@ashappyasiget1403 жыл бұрын
Women were push to their limits and they had to be innovative when it came to life and living. So yup, I would go to India. India then I imagine was lush with forest and beautiful. I would love reading a book about this mother and daughter duo. Seems they had it tough.
@redalcock47043 жыл бұрын
Really interesting. I knew about Eliza but not much about Philadelphia. Thank you for this exploration of her life. I looked for part two on your subscription list but could not find it. Has it not been filmed yet?
@davidponseigo88112 жыл бұрын
I really love your hair in this video.
@josephlim68543 жыл бұрын
Your mention of milliner reminded me of Irene Molloy in HELLO DOLLY .... where she states people think she's a "wicked woman" because of her profession. I know i know that's set in late 19th century in NYC and not regency area but it did pop into my head. Great video as always and am now curious to hear part 2!!!!!! I really really hope Eliza won't get guillotined!
@ljcl18593 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to hear the rest of the story! I'm on pins and needles.
@k.castillo26923 жыл бұрын
Very informative. I haven't read the book but I plan to this weekend.
@BionicOffice11 ай бұрын
In the mid19th century one of my gt gt grandmothers was a dressmaker and, as we would say, entrepreneur. She had her own shop in London and would go to Paris to see the latest fashions and then race back to be the first to make them in London. She got pregnant and a man agreed to marry her. From what i understand he was not the father but a salesman. I have always wondered who the father was and what was offered for him to marry her. She had a girl and i think someone settled something on her. The man became my gt gt grandfather when they had another girl. My gt grandmother hated him bc he apparently drank away all her mother's money and the shop. Thats a story from my father. Id love to research more about my gt gt grandmother. The whole story both fascinates me and reverberated through the generations.
@Taleofthegreat3 жыл бұрын
Oh, please tell us what happened next!
@somethingclever89163 жыл бұрын
I would love to see a series on dressmakers workrooms through this time period
@irondiver20343 жыл бұрын
Oh my talk of prostitution and drugs in an episode by Ms E Dashwood? Just wait until Lady Catherine de Bourgh or Lady Darlrimple hear of this! Scandalous I say. Seriously I had no idea about the aunt what a story so far. The wife and I are enjoying how you are weaving historical facts with the main story. Well done.
@strngenchantedgirl3 жыл бұрын
Milliners and other women in the fashion trades in Paris anyway were known to often be the kind of escorts or party girls of their era. They didn’t pay these young women enough to support themselves so they had to take dates from men with money to feed themselves. The same is true for women in the arts. This is where courtesan culture comes from in 19th century France. Like Cosette’s mother in Les Mis.
@matthewbrick75393 жыл бұрын
Amazing costume!
@robertgerrity87810 ай бұрын
Note the key phrase in hubby's letter to P: as you well know, re English gentleman in Inja as debauched coxcombs. Meaning: she arrived to be sponsored by hubby as uncle's friend with a goal to marry well, looking for the next Warren Hastings. The lads were cads. Her intimacy with 2B hubby as confident grew into safe marriage.
@jodiredler74692 жыл бұрын
My niece is a fashion major at Stern College and she works pt in a hat shop in Manhatten. Not a front for anything -- it just sells beautiful hats. It wouldn't be popular in the Midwest where she is from and I still love but in Manhatten, it's a very popular little shop where people buy lovely hats
@neesiedavis40622 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for the 2nd video!! :)
@WayToVibe3 жыл бұрын
The drug fronts in my town are all the psychic joints that can somehow manage to pay rent by downtown prices yet never, EVER have customers.
@gibbersking657516 күн бұрын
Were I in England and had oodles of time on my hands, I'd like to have a go at least try the Census to see if Philadelphia is listed anywhere.
@grogery15703 жыл бұрын
I have my grandfathers apprenticeship papers from the 1930's he had to work for two years before they would give him the apprenticeship. I presume he only got apprentice wages during this time but he did get the higher third year rate when he and his mother signed! I have always wondered if there was an element of exploitation by his employer.
@WardNightstone3 жыл бұрын
Philadelphia Austin a Georgian England 5 and an India 10 apparently
@charleslor36863 жыл бұрын
Could you analyse Poldark? social classes, costumes etc?
@jrowme92303 жыл бұрын
I was gonna rec this on the social circles Ep as poldark does basically jump spheres for his wife
@magdahearne4973 жыл бұрын
If I remember correctly from my history lessons back in the Dark Ages, Captain James Cook was originally an apprentice milliner before running off to sea...which was obviously the lesser of the two evils in his young opinion. Heaven only knows how the girls were treated. Such a shame that the children were all seperated & that Philadelphia was essentially overlooked where her status & education was concerned. I'm glad she found a kind & affectionate husband, in the words of Samuel Richardson from his novel Clarissa... "the worth of a good husband is not known till it is lost." I look forward to Eliza's story with much relish. Great video Ellie, thanks for sharing 🌻🌻🌻
@edithengel22842 жыл бұрын
Cook was apprenticed to a grocer and haberdasher as a shop boy. Eighteen months after started the gentleman to whom he was apprenticed saw that it wasn't working, and brought him to friends who were coal merchants. Cook was made a merchant marine apprentice, which proved much more to his taste.
@emy67322 жыл бұрын
just a quick note, when listening with headset, the sound only comes through the left . amazing video though !
@catherinefalk82637 ай бұрын
Love Ellie's hair. She could portray Lizzie in "Pride & Prejudice,"