momofajcl

You in 1905
Get a snapshot of your life as it might have been had you been living in Britain 100 years ago. Take the quiz then post what your life would have been like!

http://www.pbs.org/manorhouse/1905/index.html

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Here is what mine says:

You live alone and have a private income!
- A Snapshot of your life as it might have been in 1905

Education
Your parents send you to a private school and despite the fact that you are bright and enjoy school you leave at 16.

Career Prospects
When you're young you do some household chores but don't do any work in the kitchen. When your mother dies you're left the house and a private income and your spinster friend comes to live with you. You believe strongly in the need to improve the quality of food and sanitation for the poor so you join a commission on public health and campaign for improvements.

Leisure Time
You eat your main meal (meat and vegetables) in the evening, except on Sundays. You support the church by sewing kneeler covers, arranging flowers and raising money for charity. You learn the piano and enjoy going to the theatre and musical concerts in the local town. Every week you make time to borrow books from the mobile library that p***es through your village.

Living Conditions
You employ two servants who live in your house but are unimpressed with the quality of their work.

Marital Relations
The man from the parish you are engaged to is killed at war. You never marry which will set you apart from most of your contemporaries.

World War One
When World War One starts you join a women's auxiliary force and survive to be awarded a 1914 Star and a bronze Victory Medal.

Kricket

Mine is the same as yours momofajcl !

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You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

frazzledmomof2

This is really neat! Where did you find this??

You are a Lodging house keeper!
- A Snapshot of your life as it might have been in 1905

Education
You go to school until the age of 14 and then go into apprenticeship.

Career Prospects
You stay in the job all your life, you don't enjoy it. There's little prospect of promotion, but it's the only trade you know.

Leisure Time
You look forward to going away for a week once a year – you only get 10 days' holiday per year. Usually you take the train and stay in a boarding house by the sea. One day you go to church where you hear sermons about the importance of improving the conditions of the working poor. You get fired up by discussions in your dormitory about how campaigners are trying to improve women's rights and you join a march in London in 1907 to show your support.

Living Conditions
You board on your work premises in a dirty, cramped dormitory. This is a condition of the job. A severe system of "fines" for every minor offence at work takes money from your small salary and you have little left to spend on luxuries. You eat in the basement dining rooms, usually bread with cheese, jam or lard dripping. You don't usually have time to go outside in the day.

Marital Relations
You don't get married but are involved with various men throughout your life. When you get pregnant by a man you work with you have the baby aborted in secret.
Position in Society

Your life as it might have been further UP or DOWN society's ladder.





Other Possible Occupations
Shop ***istant, Nurse, Midwife, Publican, Barmaid

General Statistics

In 1901, 85 percent of women over 45 were either married or widowed
In 1911, almost half of all illegitimate children were born to women in service
'Unemployable' women would often end up at the workhouse, or as prostitutes

Background to You in 1905

swtlissa68

Mine was the same as yours momofajcl


You live alone and have a private income!
- A Snapshot of your life as it might have been in 1905

Education
Your parents send you to a private school and despite the fact that you are bright and enjoy school you leave at 16.

Career Prospects
When you're young you do some household chores but don't do any work in the kitchen. When your mother dies you're left the house and a private income and your spinster friend comes to live with you. You believe strongly in the need to improve the quality of food and sanitation for the poor so you join a commission on public health and campaign for improvements.

Leisure Time
You eat your main meal (meat and vegetables) in the evening, except on Sundays. You support the church by sewing kneeler covers, arranging flowers and raising money for charity. You learn the piano and enjoy going to the theatre and musical concerts in the local town. Every week you make time to borrow books from the mobile library that p***es through your village.

Living Conditions
You employ two servants who live in your house but are unimpressed with the quality of their work.

Marital Relations
The man from the parish you are engaged to is killed at war. You never marry which will set you apart from most of your contemporaries.

World War One
When World War One starts you join a women's auxiliary force and survive to be awarded a 1914 Star and a bronze Victory Medal.

momofajcl

I watched every episode of this show called The Manor House or something like that when it aired on my local PBS. One day I went on the PBS.org website and checked out some interviews with the "cast" or participants is probably a better word...and I stumbled on this quiz;) Thought is was a neat way to learn a bit about the living conditions of that time!

swtlissa68

I just took the snob test, did u try that one on the site? I am 46% snob

momofajcl

LOL! No...I haven't taken that one!

http://www.pbs.org/manorhouse/quiz/index.html for the snob quiz!

I am 50% snob! LOL!

swtlissa68

I love taking quizzes......there is a site with tons of different quizzes.........www.emode.com u should go there once, cand check it out!

Countrymama

You are in Service in a Country House!
- A Snapshot of your life as it might have been in 1905

Education
You go to school until you're 14 where you learn needlework, cookery and work. You become a member of the Girls Friendly Society when you're 14, which trains you in aspects of domestic service. You then become a servant.

Career Prospects
You start work in a country house, serving the housekeeper and doing other general work. You're often ticked off for insubordination – the senior servants think you're cocky. You strike up a relationship with a footman but like so many female servants of the time, you become pregnant and you're instantly dismissed from the house. You have nowhere to go as your family haven't got the room to take you back, so you're forced into a workhouse. You find employment in a sweatshop, putting the bristles into brushes sixteen hours a day.

Leisure Time
While you're working at the country house, you have to wear one of your four working dresses. You enjoy borrowing copies of The Illustrated London News and the Sketch, to look at pictures of actresses and ladies in pretty clothes. When you're thrown out, you long for the days when you worked in the country house and had a few hours a week to yourself.

Living Conditions
Whilst in Service, you have a small, simple room. After you leave, life in the workhouse makes even that room seem sumptuous. In the workhouse, up to 100 men and 60 women in bunk-like beds. Your diet is made up of bread, milk, porridge, and gruel.

Marital Relations
With a child in tow, you're not great marriage material. You remain single, and continue to work into your old age, gradually gaining more and more benefits, as new forms of social security are introduced.

World War One
You carry on working in the sweatshop, as the brushes are for use by soldiers. Your boss becomes rich with all the orders he wins from the military.
Position in Society

Your life as it might have been further UP or DOWN society's ladder.





Other Possible Occupations
Cook, Housemaid, Sweatshop worker

General Statistics

In 1901, 85 percent of women over 45 were either married or widowed
In 1911, almost half of all illegitimate children were born to women in service
'Unemployable' women would often end up at the workhouse, or as prostitutes

Background to You in 1905

Countrymama

I am 52% snob

DeeDee

You'll be in Service!
- A Snapshot of your life as it might have been in 1905

Education
You go to elementary school where you learn cookery and housework and occasionally a little arithmetic, history and geography although this is thought to be unimportant for girls.

Career Prospects
You go into service, working extremely long hours. You leave the job when you marry, but you supplement the family income by doing unskilled temporary work whenever you can get it.

Leisure Time
You escape when you can to meet at the music hall or in pubs.

Living Conditions
You're one of two servants working in a new villa on the outskirts of a city. You spend much of the time on your own in the house, working 14 hour days. When you marry and leave the house, you live in one gloomy room in a run-down house with your husband, children, your mother, father and brother. You share one smelly latrine between several families.

Marital Relations
You marry at the age of 25.

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DeeDee

I am 48% snob.


DeeDee

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Charmed4

I quit school when I was 14, and was one of you ladys maid. I got nocked up (unwed), and fired (thanks). Went to work at a sweatshop. I don't like that one! I suck then!

I had to go back and take the snob test 54%, I'm proud of that! I don't think I'll go out and buy a fruit knife (or what ever it was).

Polly

I'm 54% snob. I don't agree with that. They just got me because I didn't go for the lapr
In the other quiz I was a MESS!! I was way down on the totem pole. haha

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dedesunshine

You live alone and have a private income!
- A Snapshot of your life as it might have been in 1905

Education
Your parents send you to a private school and despite the fact that you are bright and enjoy school you leave at 16.

Career Prospects
When you're young you do some household chores but don't do any work in the kitchen. When your mother dies you're left the house and a private income and your spinster friend comes to live with you. You believe strongly in the need to improve the quality of food and sanitation for the poor so you join a commission on public health and campaign for improvements.

Leisure Time
You eat your main meal (meat and vegetables) in the evening, except on Sundays. You support the church by sewing kneeler covers, arranging flowers and raising money for charity. You learn the piano and enjoy going to the theatre and musical concerts in the local town. Every week you make time to borrow books from the mobile library that p***es through your village.

Living Conditions
You employ two servants who live in your house but are unimpressed with the quality of their work.

Marital Relations
The man from the parish you are engaged to is killed at war. You never marry which will set you apart from most of your contemporaries.

World War One
When World War One starts you join a women's auxiliary force and survive to be awarded a 1914 Star and a bronze Victory Medal.

I am 59% snob.......

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