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Originally Posted by Formendacil
And call the Bagginses middle-class stereotypes if you like, but to me Bag-End smacks more of a manor house suited to a beknighted peer than something truly middle class.
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But the Bagginses are definitely middle class while the Tooks are "gentry"/aristocracy. There is a huge difference in mentality if not finance. Maybe it is hard also to realise how (ridiculously) this mattered then but it is barely a century since my great grandmother was disowned by her family for marrying "in to trade" - she was also spat at in the streets for being so immodest as to ride a bicycle ..... Bit of a Belladonna Took herself
