Lower Class Flashcards
Edna, the parlourmaid is just clearing the table’
Q1
‘(Reproachfully) Arthur, your not supposed to say such things’
Q2
‘A young woman died in the Infirmary. She’d been taken there this afternoon because she’d swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out…suicide’
Q3
‘Well we’ve several hundred young women there, y’know, and they keep changing’
Q4
‘We were paying the usual rates and if they didn’t like those rates, they could go…she’d had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go’
Q5
‘No work, no money coming in, and living in lodgings, with no relatives to help her, few friends, lonely, half-starved, she was feeling desperate’
Q6
‘I don’t suppose for a moment that we can understand why the girl committed suicide. Girls of that class-‘
Q7
‘Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she were an animal, a thing, not a person. No, you won’t forget’
Q8
‘One Eva smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of of Eva Smiths and John smiths…we are responsibly for eachother’
Q9
