12/19/2023 0 Comments Marigold downton abbey![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When her lover is finally declared dead, Edith inherits his publishing enterprise. However, the farmer's wife doesn't know Edith is the real mother, gets fed up with Edith's hanging around, insists she stop visiting, until, finally, Edith, says enough! I am taking my baby. Plucky Edith refuses to leave her baby in Switzerland, brings her back to England, arranges for a tenant farmer and his wife to raise the "orphan," which Edith will take on as a special charge, visiting often, bringing gifts, taking care of her. Ever wonder why Dickens, the master of wickedly appropriate names for his fictional characters, chose "Lady Dedlock" for the deeply closeted first mother in Bleak House? I never did. Girls left high school and college in shame some entered dreadful maternity homes and were told not even to share their real names with the other girls there others hid out with relatives or journey to cities where they knew no one and left quickly after their babies were given up (that would be fellow blogger Jane) women left jobs (that would be me) movie stars went away and "adopted" their own children, ala Loretta Young and others. In other cases, fathers and mothers, especially fathers, were adamant: the baby must be given up. I was mortified to the point that I kept my baby, like Lady Edith, secret from my family until I became a crusader before the decade was out. She will thus avoid shame and scandal, which could bring down not only her good name, but that of the whole lot of the Crawleys.Īlthough a lot had changed by the time Jane my fellow blogger and I had our babies in 1966, I couldn't help thinking. Soon enough, the Dowager Countess, Edith's canny grandmother, figures out the truth, but Edith is determined to keep the secret from the rest of her family. Back home in England, Edith learns she is pregnant, goes off to Switzerland with her aunt to have the baby in secret. ![]() He goes to Germany as Hitler's Brownshirts are on the rise in order to get a divorce (not possible in England then), but he gets in the way of a pack of hooligans and is killed. His wife is institutionalized, never to get well. In brief, the unmarried but smart Lady Edith, the middle daughter who brings no estate or great fortune with her, falls in love with the owner of the newspaper she writes a column for.Īlas, he is married. Only this time the baby is a direct descendant of Lord and Lady Grantham. That broke the floodgates on my tears-he would be shocked and horrified that he came from such lowly stock if he found out later-but here we are again with an illegitimate child. I am glued to this story line, just as I was when the Maid Ethel in a previous season turned over her baby to his wealthy, upper class grandparents, agreeing to stay on as a servant-but not tell her son until much later who true identity. The stakes are high, the scandal is huge, the shame would be great. Lady Edith's story on Downton Abbey of what to do with her "bastard" baby Marigold has us in the adoption community engrossed and disturbed, always anxious about how this mother-and-child bond is going to be played, since MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE WATCHING.īecause more than eight million viewers tuned in for the first episode this season, a lot of people will be influenced by how the Crawley family handles the baby born of an unwed mum-and the mum herself, Lady Edith. ![]()
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