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From your reading of 'The Fenland Chronicle' discuss the farmers view of what life is like for girls in service. Consider the way the story is told, what is revealed about the narrator and the daily routines of a maid.
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From your reading of 'The Fenland Chronicle' discuss the farmers view of what life is like for girls in service. Consider the way the story is told, what is revealed about the narrator and the daily routines of a maid. The 'Fenland Chronicle', by Sybill Marshall, is an oral history piece, and its various areas are interesting not only historically but also linguistically. These will be analysed below. The language and structure used in the piece links in with the narrator and the life for girls in service, which will be discussed later. The piece is not perfectly structured, as, being an oral history, which was spoken, recorded and then had it's transcript written down, did not allow the author time to carefully organise his or her ideas as one would when writing on paper. The piece does have a general structure, as the first paragraph appears to be an introduction to...
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