Women and work in eighteenth-century Edinburgh / Elizabeth C. Sanderson.
Women and work in eighteenth-century Edinburgh / Elizabeth C. Sanderson.
Women and work in eighteenth-century Edinburgh / Elizabeth C. Sanderson.
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Publisher
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
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Date
1996.
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N331.4094134/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 236 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The Retail Trade -- 2. Roomsetters, Nurses and Graveclothes-Makers: Community Care in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh -- 3. Single Women and Independence -- 4. Married Women and Subsistence -- 5. Women and Poverty -- Appendix 1: Women Shopkeepers in the Minute Books of the Merchant Company of Edinbu...
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Publisher
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1996.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Georgian Edinburgh has become a familiar place to many of us, yet the working life of its population, especially the working lives of women, has been largely neglected. In this book, the first in-depth study of women's experience of work in Scotland before 1800, previously unexplored sources have been used to illuminate the everyday working activit...
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Women and work in eighteenth-century Edinburgh / Elizabeth C. Sanderson.
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Studies in gender history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-232) and index.
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N331.4094134/1
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74VvD0jQyoKZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvD0jQyoKZ
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ISBN
0312129173
9780312129170
DDC
331.409413409033
MMS ID
991005071409702626
