1st Edition

The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century

By Alice Clark Copyright 1968
336 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1968. This investigation was undertaken with a view to discovering the actual circumstances of women’s lives in the Seventeenth Century. The Seventeenth Century itself forms a sort of watershed between two very widely differing eras in the history of Englishwomen— the Elizabethan and the Eighteenth Century. It demonstrates the conditions under which the obscure mass of women... Read more
I. INTRODUCTORY, II. CAPITALISTS, III. AGRICULTURE, IV. TEXTILES, V. CRAFTS AND TRADES, VI. PROFESSIONS, VII. CONCLUSION, LIST OF AUTHORITIES, LIST OF WAGES ASSESSMENTS, INDEX

Biography

Alice Clark