{"id":148,"date":"2010-08-18T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=148"},"modified":"2010-08-20T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T12:09:42","slug":"emily-faulder-co-founder-of-universal-aunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Emily Faulder: Co-founder of Universal Aunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_184\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Part-of-Unknown-Phils-father-Emily-Faulder-Ronald-Faulder-John-Faulder-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184\" title=\"Part of Unknown (Phil's father), ~Emily Faulder~, Ronald Faulder, John Faulder (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Part-of-Unknown-Phils-father-Emily-Faulder-Ronald-Faulder-John-Faulder-2.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Faulder\" width=\"141\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Faulder, Co-founder of Universal Aunts<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Emily Story Faulder (1883-1974), was the first child of Joseph Sewell Faulder and his wife Emily Story and was my Great Aunt.<\/p>\n<p>Gertrude Maclean together with Emily Faulder set up <a title=\"third party website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universalaunts.co.uk\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Aunts<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/utility\/willcreatenewwindow.gif\" alt=\"open new window\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a> in 1921 as the original concierge service although very much focusing on  looking after children &#8211; particularly those travelling alone.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a title=\"third party website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universalaunts.co.uk\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/utility\/willcreatenewwindow.gif\" alt=\"open new window\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having found a partner, Miss Emily Faulder, she [Gertrude Maclean] started her business in a  little room behind a bootmaker&#8217;s in Chelsea. Their lease did not allow  them to work in the afternoons, so they went, with their papers in a  capacious knitting bag, to Harrods&#8217; Ladies&#8217; Rest Room where they  received clients and applicants on a sofa in the corner. So began a  business that by its 80th year had employed over three quarters of a  million men and women, and undertaken over a million services.<!--more--><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A typical advertisement would read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Universal Aunts (Ladies of Irreproachable Background): Care of  Children; Chaperonage; House Furnishing; Shopping for the Colonies;  Research Work. ANYTHING FOR ANYONE AT ANY TIME.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In April 2004 The Times (Valerie Grove), in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/article832109.ece\">profile<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/utility\/willcreatenewwindow.gif\" alt=\"open new window\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Princess of Wales started her career with children as a Universal  Aunt. Monica Dickens, ex-deb, worked for them as a cook and kitchenmaid,  and wrote her first novel, <em>One Pair of Hands<\/em>, about it. When  Winston Churchill\u2019s widow Clementine found her eyesight failing in 1976,  Universal Aunts supplied readers-aloud. Mrs Dale, of <em>Mrs Dale\u2019s Diary<\/em>,  applied for work as an Aunt when widowed. The ageing Sir John Betjeman,  in Chelsea, would always proffer a glass of champagne to the departing  Aunt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Faulder: Co-founder of Universal Aunts with Gertrude Maclean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,59,7,120,31],"tags":[133,202,132,208],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1912-99","category-biography","category-faulder","category-complete","category-workbusiness","tag-concierge-service","tag-faulder","tag-universal-aunts","tag-workbusiness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}