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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anna was the maid for all the daughters before Mary got married.

Whatever happened to the Abbey having actual maid staff?  All of the downstairs characters are fairly elite service staff (butler, housekeeper, ladies' maids, valets, footmen, etc.) - what about the people who wash the dishes and do the laundry and empty the chamber pots and clean the fireplaces?  In Season 1, Daisy was a "house maid" and had tasks like that (and wasn't allowed in rooms at the same time as upstairs residents), but then she got promoted to the kitchen and we haven't seen real service staff since. [/quote]

Occasionally you see them in the background. I think the show can only feature so many characters, so they don't focus on the rest of the staff. Also, we know that a lot of the staff are doing double duty to make up for shortages...both because the family can't afford to be as fully staffed as in the past, and because they have trouble finding good help (times were changing, poor men and women were finding different types of jobs, and it was no longer the norm to go into service. [/quote]

Agree -- they've probably been forced to cut down on staff, but there are still more servants than the major characters.  Weren't there a bunch of extra servants lined up to see Lord G off to America?  [/quote]

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