As the list is so quiet, I'll take this opportunity to raise a point
that has always puzzled me, and hope that it will not be off topic.
My great-grandmother lived in the North of England, (north Lancashire),
at the end of the Victorian era, and I know very little about her,
except that she was considered a very proud woman because she wouldn't
tie her bonnet strings.
It's bothered me all my life, and of course I should have asked my older
relatives, but I've left it too late now, and they are all gone.
So: can anyone explain what that was about?
Awaiting all suggestions with interest,
Linda Walton,
(in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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