A cook, a housemaid, a gardener, a chauffeur, a nanny, a philosopher, and his wife . . .

From Ray Monk’s biography of Bertrand Russell: Though the Russells were not especially wealthy, they employed—as was common in Britain until after the Second World War—a number of servants: a cook, a housemaid, a gardener, a chauffeur and a nanny. … Continue reading → …