The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes, #1)

by Nancy Springer

I knew my mother was criticised for failing properly to drape vulgar surfaces such as coal scuttles, the back of her piano, and me.

So blessed to live in the era we do

“It’s my fault. There’s no trusting a woman; why make an exception for one’s mother? I should have come here to check upon her yearly at the very least, no matter how much unpleasantness would have ensued.”

It’s not that she’s a woman it’s that she is your mother and you ought to check in on her and your kid sister whom you are giving large sums of money to keep up. Money that should arguably be your mothers and not yours as a widow ought to inherit her husband’s estate not the eldest son of his mother is still alive. I know the sexism is important and accurate but its still appalling.

“As I am the firstborn son, the estate is mine,” he went on, “and Mother did not dispute that, but she could not seem to see why she should not manage things for me, rather than the other way around.

Absolutely disgusting

When Sherlock and I reminded her that, legally, she had no right even to live here unless I permitted it, she became quite irrational and made it clear that we were no longer welcome in our own birth-place.”

As she should you great big assholes

“We think she has now taken what she perceives as her money and, um, gone somewhere to, ah, thumb her nose at us, so to speak.”

As she should it is her money

and on the girl’s waist the corset stayed, day and night, waking or sleeping, except for one hour a week when it was removed for “ablutions,” that is, so that the girl could bathe. Then it was replaced, tighter, depriving the wearer of the ability to breathe normally, so that the slightest shock would cause her to fall down in a faint. This was considered “charming.”

All poppycock that came from the mouths of men. A properly fitted corset was no different than wearing a bra today. Modern spanx are just a modern corset without the boning. They are just as restrictive. They were a support garment not a torture device. Most of what you hear of the teeny tiny waists was just fetish material and it was all nonsense. https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/everything-you-know-about-corsets-is-false/