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"Below Stairs," the memoir that inspired "Downton Abbey" and "Upstairs, Downstairs," gets a re-release as "Downton Abbey" begins its second season.
"[It] still stands out in my mind like a scene from a Victorian melodrama," Powell writes of the time when a fellow maid got pregnant. She was paid upon leaving (possibly, Powell thinks, because the father may have been a relative of their employer), but was fired as soon as the wife of the household found out. "In those days it was slam the door, dismissal with no money, your own home probably closed to you, nothing left but the streets or the workhouse."
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