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|title=Aprons and Silver Spoons

|author=Mollie Moran

|publisher=Penguin

|date=March 2013

|summary=Mollie Moran recalls with affection her years spent as a scullery maid in a stately London townhouse.

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At the tender age of 14, young Mollie Browne was forced to put her idyllic childhood behind her and embark on the world of work. Rebellious and strong-willed, young Mollie had no intentions of working in her grandmother’s shop as her parents had planned and sought to escape her small-town life in rural Norfolk. Fortunately for Mollie, a position was available for a scullery maid in a townhouse in Kensington. Would this free spirit manage to make the transition from carefree days climbing trees to working 15 hour sessions of repetitive, back-breaking toil?