Maybe it's a nationality thing? Upper-class really only refers to titled aristocracy in the UK. I wouldn't say being middle-classmeans affording private schools or having servants in modern day UK - if it does, only 7% of the population or so is middle-class, and I'm not, as the daughter of a university lecturer!
But in the thirties, my grandma was only just in the lower-middle-class (husband was a state primary school teacher, owned their own home, had lodgers sometimes), and she did her own housework with the help of a girl who came in and did. My mum and uncle, their children, were state-school educated all the way through. Nowhere near the class that would send their children to boarding school.
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Date: 2009-07-24 01:16 pm (UTC)But in the thirties, my grandma was only just in the lower-middle-class (husband was a state primary school teacher, owned their own home, had lodgers sometimes), and she did her own housework with the help of a girl who came in and did. My mum and uncle, their children, were state-school educated all the way through. Nowhere near the class that would send their children to boarding school.