 There was no question about it. And yes, she was a wealthy woman. She did have servants and possibly one of them was a slave from childhood, I don't know. But still, it took a huge amount of time and energy. Women were not supposed to be, there were even a lot of references that had been made in religious and in political statements that an educated woman was a curse. What good was an education? It had nothing to do with keeping the home and the hearth together.