?Nevertheless, Julian Fellowes has claimed that Downton Abbey - which is sheer fantasy and a sanitised version of the past - is realistic and that we ought to go back to the old days.
?I?m not being po-faced about it, but a programme that depicted the real lives of servants would have been a very interesting one. It?s worth emphasising how dirty and how smelly life was for almost everybody before about 1950.?
Prof Alison Light, an academic and author of Mrs Woolf and Her Servants, which explored the relationship between Virginia Woolf and her domestic staff, said that members of the Edwardian aristocracy were ?mean and vindictive?.
?It is a very liberal fantasy and, if it?s nostalgia, it?s obviously for a time that didn?t exist,? she said of the programme.
?It is very paternalistic and benign and generous, and nobody is nasty to anyone. So it is very much of the present moment; it is not a depiction of the Edwardian years.
?This is fiction. It?s preposterous. It?s a romance.?
Margaux Hemingway Audrey Hepburn Pee Wee Herman Barbara Hershey William Holden
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