ISBN:
9780199609345
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (310 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version City Women
DDC:
305.40942109031
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
City Women is a major new study of the lives of ordinary women in early modern London. Drawing on thousands of pages of Londoners' depositions for the consistory court, it focuses on the challenges that preoccupied London women as they strove for survival and preferment in the burgeoning metropolis. Balancing new demographic data with vivid case studies, Eleanor Hubbard explores the advantages and dangers that the city had to offer, from women's first arrival to London as. migrant maidservants, through the vicissitudes of marriage, widowhood, and old age. In early modern London, women's opport
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Note to the Reader; Introduction; 1. In Search of Preferment; 2. Making a Match; 3. Maidservants Adrift; 4. Household Mistresses; 5. Public Lives; 6. Her Honest Labor; 7. Dealing with Death; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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