Alex, what I LOVE about this is how, in 3 sentences, you elevate the importance of traditional "women's work." Because it's not just women's work, it's hugely important and a monarch's subject have to be fed, clothed, and tended and the absence of that could kill them as surely as any army. I LOVE THIS, ok? It hits my kink/head canon/obsession that Susan was never knighted because she excelled at domestic management and no one would ever really notice things like insufficient foodstuffs or no clean clothes (or clothes at all) unless she saw it done. I also happen to think that Edmund and Peter were better at sewing than Susan or Lucy. THANK YO
Re: [Narnia] armies march on their stomachs, wearing hand-knit socks