For example, Cora calling Violet "Mama". Would Tom call Isobel and Violet by their first names? With Isobel I think he would, but I don't know.
For example, Cora calling Violet "Mama". Would Tom call Isobel and Violet by their first names? With Isobel I think he would, but I don't know.
It might be okay for Tom to address Isobel, by her first name, but only if they were far more familiar and likely only in private. I couldn't see a good situation where Tom would ever address the Dowager Countess of Grantham by her first name or even something like "grand mama"... I don't think the class system will have broken down that much in the time period of Downton Abbey... especially while Violet still lives.
What would he call Violet, then? Not referring to her in conversation, but when he was actually saying hello to her, or something like that.
One of the many titles listed on the infobox on Violet's page... I would guess just "Lady Grantham," if Cora were not around.
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Yes, "Lady Grantham" or if it's necessary to distinguish from Cora, "Dowager Lady Grantham". First names seem very familiar for the time, even for a grandson-in-law.
Isobel would be Mrs. Crawley. To be on a first name basis, they would have to be either much closer, like courting, or friends for more years than Tom has been alive. (It was ages before the Dowager Lady Grantham allowed Mrs. Crawley to call her by her first name.)
I thought this was a good summary of forms of address:
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