The Tide of Life

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Living in Tyneside in the early 20th century, poor Emily is knocked about by fate and victimized by any number of nasty people -- until, of course, the Right Man comes along.

Life goes on; everyone quietly shuns Ray, so Emily has to go and cute her way through the grocer and whatever else. In this case South Shields lass got allowance to carry on with how strong her job was working to get to where she needed to be ladylike.The problem with The Tide of Life is that while she seems perfectly sweet and capable of making normal-person decisions, she agrees to go steady with any dude who enters the frame, so you end up wondering if she has a concussion. The household of Croft Dene, where Lawrence Birch ruled as master, was a strange one, and as Emily became more deeply involved with the family’s affairs, she grew rapidly to a young woman, needing all her strength of will and character to survive. And whatever happened, she clung grimly to a scrap of philosophy that had become her motto: 'Never say die! She loved her job as maid to Sep McGilby, and her only worry was about her delicate younger sister Lucy.

The Tide of Life" is not the best of the Victorian TV dramas coming out of the UK and pales before the likes of "The Forsyte Saga" or "The Mayor of Casterbridge".This is no ordinary movie, but moves from dramatic highs and lows, joys and sorrows, hardships and luxuries, peaks and valleys, that are mind-bending enough to make any ordinary young lady lose hope. When she sees that the lawyer who sent her a check for thirty pounds sold her watch to some antiques dealer for four hundred pounds, he comforts her.

Of course, since it’s a buttermilk tumor and not a bairnsketball, Con’s off the hook for getting Lucy into trouble, but the villagers didn’t get the memo about that, and when Ray sends Emily and Con into town with the dairy buckets, the villagers drag Con down from the wagon and chase him around the moors. Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, who Catherine believed was her older sister. However, Con, who’s already freaked out, decides that he’s had enough and takes a header off the cliff into the rocks below – that’s bad! She loved working as maid-of-all-work for the McGilbys, the only cloud on her horizon was her anxiety about her delicate younger sister, Lucy.Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. Of course alike any other romance would, she had loved overall and won equally well in the end by the gentlemen she just deserved to be a lady spouse. In the opening scenes, the lady of the house where young Emily Kennedy is working kicks the bucket, which is lucky for Emily, apparently, since the widower proposes to her after about a week. A little too depressing for me, but it probably was a true depiction of what life was like in the early 1900s for many people. And quite rightly any person from a loving family really ought to placed where they should even when from a poorer background.