Story: What Annabella Wants Annabella Gets. Chapter 6.

by Jackie J

The guest room that Lady Hogarth entered had been prepared to perfection with fresh flowers and neatly folded towels. A filled bathtub, still lightly steaming, sat at the foot of the bed on a soft mat.

Having bathed Lady Hogarth smiled opening the closet to find her clothes neatly arranged the drawers no different. The maid had been busy. The supper prepared and served by Annie brought compliments that Martha gratefully received and passed on to Annie.

Maud had concluded that Constance’s motivation, for exploiting Annabella’s feeble mind and supressed obsession with servility and her own subjugation, at the hands of the housekeeper in being a maid, stemmed from inheritance. Annabella stood to inherit everything, if Annabella disappeared, could not be traced, became hidden away at Buckshire manor, one of the Countesses maids, which she already was? Well who would inherit then? Annabella inheriting the family fortune was not ideal and no doubt would soon be squandered but that women getting her hands on the family’s wealth never.

Maud had received word, that her brother the Earl, was currently unlikely to survive a journey home from Switzerland and it could be some time before he returned if at all, such was the seriousness of his condition. With his physical and mental condition deteriorating by the week, the question of inheritance was becoming more of an issue and prayed on Maud’s mind.

Story: What Annabella Wants Annabella Gets. Chapter 5.

by Jackie J

The Earl’s entourage did not return on the planned date and a letter received on the Thursday of that week explained that the Earl had been taken ill during preparations to leave the residence in Switzerland. There was no date given for the return only that arrangements would be made when the Earl recovered. The Countess was not overly inconvenienced by this change of plan, Lord Edmund also making his arrangements to extend his stay.

A week passed with no further word on the fate of the Earl or revised plans for the Earl and Countess to return to Buckshire manor.

Looking out over the extensive grounds from the parlour windows, watching the gardeners at work, Martha saw through the trees a carriage approaching the main gates? Being only one carriage, it could not be the Earl and Countess but who was it?

Martha stopped Annie from her work and told her to remain down in the kitchens until called.

Straightening her dress and fluffing her hair in the hallway mirror Martha answered the call of the doorbell.

Story: What Annabella Wants Annabella Gets. Chapter 4.

by Jackie J

The Earl and Countesses time at their summer retreat was drawing to a close and preparations for the return to Buckshire manor were underway. Neither looking forward to the week- long journey home but for different reasons. Malcom, the doddering Asthmatic half blind Earl had benefited from the clean air of the Alps which he would miss and the Bath chair to which he was confined made travel difficult and uncomfortable. The yellow fever, contracted shortly after his marriage to his second wife Constance, had ravaged his body and left him with failing eyesight and aged beyond his years.

For her part, the vivacious Countess, the second wife of the Earl and less than half his age, would miss her secretive dalliances afforded to her in this foreign land. With the Earl, house bound and left in the Chateaux, the long walks, taken by the Countess, regularly terminated at the lodgings of Lord Edmunds for the physical pounding her young body craved, which, of course, her crippled husband could not provide. The Earl had two women in his life, his adulterous wife of course and his daughter, his  pampered princess, the jewel of his eye, nothing was too much for her, she could do no wrong, whatever she wanted she got, something the stepmother of the spoiled brat resented with a passion. The question of inheritance never far from the Countesses’ mind.

When Miss Jarvis, the housekeeper at Buckshire Manor, received the preposterous demand from Miss Annabella she was dumbfounded. She had seen what had happened to other staff when the little witch could not get her way, the girl did not know the meaning of the word no. Anxious for her position Martha confided in the Countess what Miss Annabella had asked of her.

Stuck As as a Maid Captions

A new contributor, Vessa Vellucci, has kindly shared several lady-to-maid captions. Enjoy and feel free to share your opinions in the comments sections. 

Princess to Maid

AndiJF has kindly shared a subtitled video from a Chinese TV show. Looks like a fairytale with our favourite premise. A maidservant swaps bodies with her mistress with the help of an evil sorcerer! 

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A little Unknown Trick About The Maids' Hierarchy

A new format from a new contributor, MM. Hope you enjoy it!

A little unknown trick about the maids' hierarchy

by MM

My name is Anastasia, but I am called Ana now.

I was a former Mistress in a mansion in some upper class neighborhood in Saint Petersburg in Russia. Very well educated in art and literature, I used to wear expensive and elegant dresses as well as make-up and jewels. But that's over now. Due to an "accident" in life, I lost everything: my wealth, my social status, my friends and networking, my former university education. Everything!

Why? Because I had to become a full time maid, being employed in another mansion now. By chance, if I can say that, it is not in Saint Petersburg but in Yekaterinburg - thus I will not come across the people I knew formerly. But so, I was reeducated to become a real maid.

I will not tell you about that difficult period of my life, that's not what I want to tell you here, but rather tell a little unknown trick about the maids' hierarchy. As I told, I had to learn all the culture of being a maid to erase my previous education and there's something which every maid knows, which every Mistress knows and which is very efficient and practical, yet very discreet.

You know that soldiers have a hierarchy at military. They are differentiated by their grades, for instance:

As you can see, there are one, two and three stripes of the same shape. The corporal obeys to the sergeant and the private obeys to both the sergeant and the corporal. I know that you know that and that I am learning you nothing new here.

Story: Bringing it to Life.

Courtesy of Spanking Magazine Stories blog republishing vintage illustrated spanking tales, here's an interesting take on 'stuck as a maid' trope.

Brining it to Life
From Uniform Girls 19

Christina was over the moon. At long last, the big break had come. After dancing on decrepit stages in dubious old working men’s clubs, she was virtually dancing on air as she told her friends about the audition. ‘I’ve got it!’ She jumped up and down, waving the letter of confirmation. ‘A two-hour pilot and then the series; and it could run and run.’ She ran up to her room, and rang through to the production company’s office. ‘Yes. Christina Jones, here. Yes. Just to say I’ll be there, tomorrow at noon.’

Battlestar Vision was one of several up and coming small production houses providing television programmes to independent television stations through Europe: and their young Managing Director, Chris Thorne, was justifiably pleased with his company’s latest coup. A brand-new British-based soap opera, sold to one of the biggest cable-networks in Europe. The series would start with a major two-hour pilot, after which, it would settle down to a twice-weekly half-hour. Plenty of work for British actors, and plenty of money too, flowing in to the coffers of Battlestar Vision. And there was one really unique aspect to the package: it was a soap with a difference: historic soap was the catchword. A modern drama series with all the audience-attracting elements of conventional soap, but based in late Victorian Britain.

Christina was early for her interview with the casting team. She nodded politely as they explained the part they intended her to play. A maid. That’s right. A very useful role for the scriptwriters because a maid has access above and below stairs. She can hear and relay all sorts of gossip… They told her the planned production schedule. The script for the pilot was already written: the programme would go into production in two months’ time ready for completion in mid-summer. The network would be broadcasting it in the early autumn, ready for the big pre-Christmas audiences. Before that, each regular member of the cast would be sent on special assignments relating to their particular part. A doctor would be sent to an old hospital with access to the establishment’s Victorian records. The man and woman who would play the major roles of Lord and Lady Harmon would spend a month in one of Britain’s smaller stately homes: and Christina was to visit another minor stately home, to work as a maid.

Captions: Hotel Heiress Humbled

AndiJF has kindly shared lady-to-maid captions with a racial transformation theme. Last one is of course inspired by an L2M classic, A Model Maid. 

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