Tea is So Intoxicating (British Library Women Writers Book 6)

by Mary Essex

It was entirely the fault of the government. All the poor people were becoming so rich in such an atrocious way that it left well-intentioned ladies of the manor like herself to study their passbooks very closely indeed.

She would doubtless also have spoken of the Servant Problem, as it grew harder to persuade people to take on roles in domestic service, which usually had longer hours and less pay than working in factories or elsewhere.