<p>The baby appears to be under a year old, maybe 8-9 months.</p>
<p>Matthew died in September 1921 and this week’s episode took place in July 1922.</p>
<p>This is the description of next week’s episode on the PBS website:
Robert and Thomas return from America. Bates disappears for a day. Edith prepares to go abroad. Suitors flock to Mary. And Rose makes her move.</p>
<p>Have been away from a computer for 2+ weeks, but have now caught up here. Thanks for the “Recaps a la FB” – they really make me laugh! I especially loved the comment about the photo of Jack and Rose in the rowboat, i.e. that “our names are Jack and Rose and we’re in a boat; this can’t end well.”</p>
<p>Agree that Green is toast, but by whose hand? Oh, and a question – do Edith’s parents (& everyone else) know Gregson is married and needs a divorce?</p>
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<p>I don’t think so, because when Cora asked Edith why Gregson went to Germany, she hesitated and said something about “business interest” there, IIRC.</p>
<p>Hmmm… so Edith is going abroad? For nine months I’m guessing. ;)) </p>
<p>I love the idea of Mrs. Hughes offing the rapist. I can see her on the witness stand, explaining in her very matter of fact way why she had to do it and everyone totally agreeing with her and appologizing for even charging her with a crime.</p>
<p>Joining in here. I was behind (I was under a vow not to watch until we could binge watch the whole season but I accidently started watching about ep 3 or 4 (after the rape) and afraid to read). On Gregson…so do we actually know if he is married? I can’t recall hearing that (but maybe that was last season?) but assume there are impediments bc it’s Edith. </p>
<p>Anyone else but me think her aunt seemed VERY understanding…like perhaps she herself had been down that unmarried pregnancy before? </p>
<p>Yeah, that is what I was thinking, Tempe.</p>
<p>Did anyone else think it odd that Mr. Ross doesn’t have an English accent? He’s not American is he? </p>
<p>I’ve been assuming Mr. Ross is an American living abroad… Black immigrants from the colonies moving to Britain and becoming English were much less common in England in the 1920s than they are today. Thus the American accent fits with the notion of Ross being an American jazz singer living and working abroad.</p>
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<li><p>Of course Ross is American. That’s why he has an American accent. (Actually, as Cardinal Fang has already told us, he is based on Lesley Hutchinson, who was born in Grenada, but moved to New York City as a 12-year-old, and then came to London in the late 20s when he was already an established jazz singer. So he may have had something of an English accent, or a Caribbean one, not the flat American accent of Jack Ross.)</p></li>
<li><p>Of course Lady Rosamund is understanding. She doesn’t live under a rock. Women have always had access to abortions, and always availed themselves of that access. None of the Cawleys who are actual Hons seem to have strong moral opinions about anything that isn’t maintaining their own wealth and position. If any of them made a huge deal about it, that would be anachronistic – it would be superimposing our current political debates on the story. (Which, of course, happens plenty.)</p></li>
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<p>Yes, there have always been abortions and always will be abortions. And considering that there was no effective birth control then, there were plenty of them–there was always sex outside of marriage!</p>
<p>This is interesting! I haven’t seen many of the characters “in real life.” Mrs. Hughes blows me away!</p>
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<p>Certainly abortions and sex and illegitimate children have always existed…but they are rarely an open and obvious part of one’s social life. I was shocked to learn as an adult that BOTH my grandmother’s had had illegal abortions, for example (edited to add: each had three children already during the depression and this was their 4th pg). . </p>
<p>Anyway, my point was more whether the city aunt is going to make known something about her own past. </p>
<p>I like the city Aunt more and more. She has come alive this season. Cora needs some interesting writing for her character.</p>
<p>I agree; Cora seems dull as dishwater. What does she do all day??</p>
<p>Cora’s affect is becoming annoying. She sounds like she is whining.</p>
<p>The talk of an illegitimate child brings to mind a shocking story my mom told me about her cousin. Mind you, my mom is 92 and the cousin was 96 when she died last year. To set the stage, this was rural NC, god-fearing, church going way of life and cousin’s grandmother had FIVE children out of wedlock, never got married. This had to be at the earliest the 1880’s. WTH? My mom had no insight at all as to why or how. The woman and her children lived with her parents. Isn’t that just extraordinary? If I were a writer, I’d flesh a book out of this tidbit.</p>