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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciated the lesson in power imbalance that Benedict got from the cottage caretaker. Curious if they’re going to revisit that so directly again in the rest of the season.

I like Benedict well enough this season, but then that dolt went ahead and pissed me right off. Ooooo, I wanted to throw something at my TV with that mistress line. Make him crawl, Sophie.[/quote]

It's realistic though, the most she could hope for due to the limitations of class. It was a different time. However, she'd of course be better off with a stable job for life versus a temporarily-more-luxurious mistress position that could end at any moment.[/quote]

If you go back to the time period, being the mistress of a powerful man could actually be a pretty good power play and set you up pretty well for life.  It depended very much on the couple — sometimes it was a true love situation where the man really did want to take care of her for life.  [b]Nelson’s mistress “lady hamilton” was born in poverty but did quite well for herself and his dying wish was that she be taken care of.  [/b]

I’m not sure there was such a thing as a stable job for life in the 18th century — a housekeeper at a manor house is probably the closest you would get, but even that would depend on the family caring enough to provide for you in old age, as you wouldn’t be able to put much by.[/quote]

Nelson's wishes were ignored and Lady Hamilton and her and Nelson's daughter were left begging.  She died at 49 in massive debt. And this was after Nelson died a national hero.[/quote]

Who is Nelson and who is Lady Hamilton? This is a thread about Bridgerton.[/quote]

A) You should definitely know who Nelson is (Battle of Trafalgar?). B) Lady Hamilton was a famous mistress who died right around the time Bridgerton is set, so it is relevant for "what kind of life would a mistress in the Regency era have."  [/quote]

I doubt that battle or nelson person matters to anyone outside of brittain.[/quote]

Finding out people didn't learn about Napoleon in school is WILD. [/quote]

Of course, everyone learned about Napolean.  But fine details like his generals mistresses are A) not really school material and B) not really relevant enough to the world today to be a priority topic worth focusing on or remembering.

Great Britain is a fallen empire, and old dead white man history is not really taught in schools any more.[/quote]

My AP Euro teacher would sprinkle in those weird details all over the place so we'd remember them.

Like learning about Marat and the reign of terror is one thing, if you learn he was stabbed while in the bath (and they brought the tub onto the altar at Notre Dame during hia funeral), you're actually more likely to remember the details.  The silly bathtub story is your brain tag into the entire reign of terror.

So Battle of Trafalgar sticks in your brain if you remember stuff like, they kind of pickled Nelson after he died. Dumb salacious detail, helps you remember  everything else.

That's why you sprinkle in the salacious side stories, it actually helps your memory for the whole.

But complaining about actual history in discussion of your (albeit fantasy) historical romance show seems silly.  Learning the actual history (which can be even wilder than the show) is part of the fun.[/quote]

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