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Indeed - interesting points Victoria. I think it only makes Florence all the more human and believable. She is always unsure of herself. Life has clearly been difficult for her, having lost her husband and apparently without any family for support. She had only the experience of working in a bookshop for a few years before she married.
Remember we are talking about the past, where (apart from during the war) married women weren’t employed. Basically they had to leave when they married, and that was still the situation when I started work in the 1960s. So self-employment was the only possibility, and even today there are plenty of self-employed people who are good at their line of work, but no good at dealing with the financial side of things, and that brings them undone.
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