Well, up to a point. (You say '1910', by the way, which I think is when the film is set - when you go on to say 'by this time', I take it we're thinking of the book and the early 30s. It's one of the things that always throws me.
Then if you look at the division of labour at Number 17, Mrs Brill is the cook - but she's more likely to be called away from the kitchen to mind the children than Mrs Banks is to do it herself. Ellen is described as doing things like dusting and setting the table: should we assume that the heavier cleaning is part of her work, but invisible? The style is that people are described as doing certain things rather than having job titles, so I'm guessing a bit here. The Laundry Bill is one of the things Mrs Banks has to think about, so there's some outsourcing going on there...
None of which is to deny any of what you and other people are saying about housework - just that I don't think that this is any part of what Travers is interested in.
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Then if you look at the division of labour at Number 17, Mrs Brill is the cook - but she's more likely to be called away from the kitchen to mind the children than Mrs Banks is to do it herself. Ellen is described as doing things like dusting and setting the table: should we assume that the heavier cleaning is part of her work, but invisible? The style is that people are described as doing certain things rather than having job titles, so I'm guessing a bit here. The Laundry Bill is one of the things Mrs Banks has to think about, so there's some outsourcing going on there...
None of which is to deny any of what you and other people are saying about housework - just that I don't think that this is any part of what Travers is interested in.