It's a fair point, Phoenix - my grandmother started off as a nursery maid when she was 13 and then became a housemaid. She only stayed in each place a couple of years and on her mother's advice, she only worked in 'big places'. She worked her way up, stopping at second housemaid because head housemaids didn't travel with the family when they went away - so she got to France when she was 18.
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