Book contents
- Ingenious Trade
- Ingenious Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Bred in the Exchange: Seamstresses and Shopkeepers
- 2 Girls as Apprentices
- 3 Managing the Trade: Women as Mistresses
- 4 What Girls Learned
- 5 Making Havoc: Discipline, Demeanour and Resistance
- 6 Freedoms and Customs
- Conclusion
- Appendix Who’s Who
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2021
Book contents
- Ingenious Trade
- Ingenious Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Bred in the Exchange: Seamstresses and Shopkeepers
- 2 Girls as Apprentices
- 3 Managing the Trade: Women as Mistresses
- 4 What Girls Learned
- 5 Making Havoc: Discipline, Demeanour and Resistance
- 6 Freedoms and Customs
- Conclusion
- Appendix Who’s Who
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In 1668, Frances Angell, an apprentice seamstress, lost her temper with her mistress Apollonia Maddox. She stormed out of the house and refused to return, saying ‘she could maintain herself well enough’ without her. She meant, as a witness explained, ‘she had attained to so good skill and instrucon in hir arte of a sempstress as she was able thereby to gett hir living’. Frances Angell and her father sued Maddox and her husband to get back the premium that had been paid for Frances’s training. The Maddoxes resisted, claiming Frances was idle, stubborn and wasteful; disobedient to both her mistress and her father; and ‘a slattern in her clothes’.
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- Ingenious TradeWomen and Work in Seventeenth-Century London, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021