Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing

Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London

Laura Gowing

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Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tr...

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