S Wright
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Wondering about employment of the Koudelka girls. Obviously not necessary for the story to tell us, but I don't recall any info about jobs for Delia or Olivia. I feel like paying jobs for females would have been discouraged by class issues in old Barrayar, but progressive leanings would have encouraged employment. Would you satisfy my curiousity?
Lois McMaster Bujold
What they were doing before their marriages I don't know, but after, Olivia would have had a full-time job as Countess Vorrutyer, and Delia, who could be an understudy for Alys by temperament, also would become a political hostess/mover-and-shaker.
Miles does remark somewhere that a countess is in effect an assistant count, though the role is rather freeform, even more so now post-uterine-replicator technology -- counts wear a lot of hats in terms of their duties, and have to delegate if they are to do right by their Districts.
Ta, L.
What they were doing before their marriages I don't know, but after, Olivia would have had a full-time job as Countess Vorrutyer, and Delia, who could be an understudy for Alys by temperament, also would become a political hostess/mover-and-shaker.
Miles does remark somewhere that a countess is in effect an assistant count, though the role is rather freeform, even more so now post-uterine-replicator technology -- counts wear a lot of hats in terms of their duties, and have to delegate if they are to do right by their Districts.
Ta, L.
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