![]() Did she get that from Cora or has Cora picked up Sybil’s torch? Because, when she refers to Lord Grantham’s reverence of, and adherence too, titles and peerage as ‘nonsense’, she really dismisses his whole life as being nonsense as well. ![]() When she refers to the ‘nonsense’ of Sir Philip’s title, one wonders if that was the first time she said that out loud. We know Sybil felt that way. Cora may have been willing to trade her inheritance for a piece of the aristocracy though, one supposes, being an American she didn’t have the entitlement in her bones the way Robert does. Even though it eventually grew into a love match, when they were twirled into one, their relationship did start as a simple business arrangement – but now she can barely tolerate the sight of him. In reality, the death of a child is something that very often causes, or just lays bare, the rifts in a marriage, and this rift between Lord and Lady Grantham is making everyone uncomfortable. We usually think of women of that era as unempowered, but in their own ways many of them, even those who didn’t chain themselves to the barricades, began to push against the old ways long before Gloria Steinem picked up the baton, and we daughter’s daughters do adore them! ![]() Hughes: When Carson says to her, ‘I never thought of you as a woman with no standards!’, she exhibits a rather snarkily satisfied body language as she flounces out the door. The women of Downton, both upstairs and down, are increasingly speaking up. ![]()
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