The Maid’s Tale
Rose Plummer and Tom Quinn

Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum, where you fought an unending battle with hunger and bed bugs.

At the age of fifteen, Rose started work as a live-in maid at a house in the West End. Despite the
poverty of her childhood, nothing could have prepared her for the harshness of this new world. Rose had to endure the strict hierarchy of the servants’ world, where the maid was expected to put up with sex pests, deranged employers, verbal and even physical abuse. But however difficult life became, Rose’s remarkable spirit shines through in her memories of a now-vanished world.