According to Wikipedia:
It is delicately implied... that the siblings were once raised as landed gentry who have fallen upon harder times since the demise of their parents.What do you think of this? Apparently their antiques are better than Hyacinth's, and I always thought Emmet sounds even more posh than Hyacinth. share
I would like to know where someone would have gotten this information. How was it "delicately implied" that they had been gentry? Yeah, Emmet was really good at riding horses, but still...
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I think Emmet sounds more posh than Hyacinth because Hyacinth really has a Northern accent that she has smoothed out!
Noone I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low
Of course, Hyacinth was really a working class girl, who did her best to appear like a perfect upper class lady. So it makes sense that she couldn't quite hide a less posh accent.
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I never got that impression, personally. Elizabeth's husband worked abroad for most of the year so I assumed he made a fair amount of money which was why she was able to live as a homemaker. She had a modest car and jewellery and I never noticed any standout heirlooms. I suppose their names are fairly well-to-do (surname Hawksworth), and Emmett is a classically trained pianist, but their manners and accents suggest private school, not top of the range boarding school or public school.
The mirror... it's broken.
Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel.
I say that Elizabeth and Emmet's background would be Middle middle class. Their father could have been an accountant, architect, doctor with either a good salary and/or some inheritance. They would have probably gone to a minor private school and well educated. Elizabeth's home is decorated in the manner of people who lived among good furnishings. A legit antique or two from the family home. Hyacinth however was trying to be "upper class" her home reflected the theme of what she thought was "proper". Some of her decorations were a bit over the top, ie the bedroom.
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