'In contrast with most service roles, the position of kennelmaid was portrayed as one that allowed women to enjoy the healthy countryside environment promoted by domestic-science reformers while gaining skills and experience in dog keeping and breeding. Like canine nurses, they were consistently depicted as “educated” girls: Carine Cadby, a kennelmaid writing in the Royal Magazine, portrayed herselfas not simply as a hard-working subordinate to her mistress but almost her equal in matters pertaining to dogs. [note: 'Carine Cadby, “A Day in the Life of a Kennel-Maid,” Royal Magazine, Autumn 1910, 43–45, at 45; “Our London Correspondence,” Manchester Guardian, 12 May 1908, 6. On efforts to promote servicework as a viable career for upper-middle-class women at this time, see Delap, Knowing Their Place,105–8.']' (306)