Gertrude's Commonplace Book

After many weeks of searching for the perfect dress, I finally found it! This ivory coloured dress will look perfect on me and it will represent everything I believe to be true about my marriage to Lord Watergate. Ever since my sisters and I began the process of opening a photography shop, I have never foreseen myself becoming a bride. Fortunately, through my work, I met Lord Watergate. Through the scandals between his friend and my sister, we became more inclined to spend time with one another, and through the time we spent, we both found that we felt that the scandal was…

The company at which my friend (Front right) is employed hired a photographer to take photos of the Mill and its workers. She only began working there because her husband died and left no money for her in his will. Instead, he left it all to another woman whom he’d been seeing for several years before he died. She works long hours in the Mill, usually 7am-7pm with only one 25 minute break at 12pm for lunch. She works every day of the week except Sunday and Christmas. She claims that sick days usually mean lagging behind on bills, so she tries to work as many days as possible…

I stumbled across this in the weekly newspaper from America, and chose to include this article in my scrapbook because I feel it was published to support myself, sisters, and people like us in the workforce. I love to collect all articles in the weekly newspaper in Britain that I feel empower women, especially those in my circumstances. Yet, seeing support come all the way from America is touching. One of my cousins that moved to America a few years ago came by our estate to visit and she brought along the paper because I had wrote to her about our shop. Seeing how others struggle the same…