Angela Woodford wrote:I await with interest to read if anyone at any time recalls being groomed as a prospective companion to a lady of means!
My immediate reaction was 'Oh for youknowwhat's sake'. You really don't get what Hertford was all about do you?
The principal "grooming" in the V1 Form was of the elite set most likely to achieve Oxford or Cambridge entrance.
One of the funniest things I read in HTR was that DR considered a CH girl (not of the elite set) to be ready prepared for nursing training, as she would already have been used to strict discipline and making beds with hospital corners. It takes maybe five minutes to learn hospital corners - so that CH advantage didn't last long!
They were infirmary corners Marsh, INFIRMARY corners . One of my few accomplishments: and now, of course, I have fitted sheets
Although I absolutely do not agree that we were being groomed as companions, I don't have any idea of what was expected of us, other than DR telling me that I would never make a Vet (because I am female). She was correct on both counts, but the logic was faulty. Yes, I'm female, and yes, I would never make a Vet (because. Oh, for so many reasons, but none of them dependent on my gender.