The English Countrywoman: A Farmhouse Social History, A.D. 1500-1900A. Melrose, 1953 - 221 páginas |
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... corn , to make malt , to wash and wring , to make hay , to shear corn , and in time of need to help her husband to fill the muck - wain , or dung cart , drive the plough , load hay , corn and such other . And to go or ride to market ...
... corn , to make malt , to wash and wring , to make hay , to shear corn , and in time of need to help her husband to fill the muck - wain , or dung cart , drive the plough , load hay , corn and such other . And to go or ride to market ...
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... corn that had fallen in after it was cut . A thatcher always had two women to help him , one to draw thatch , and the other to serve the thatcher and make bands . Women and boys or girls spread muck and molehills for 2d . or 3d . a day ...
... corn that had fallen in after it was cut . A thatcher always had two women to help him , one to draw thatch , and the other to serve the thatcher and make bands . Women and boys or girls spread muck and molehills for 2d . or 3d . a day ...
Página 199
... corn or pick stones as we did . The women must not work in the fields nowadays , and the children are at school . So the work is not done and we are glad of an excuse to curtail expense , however injurious it may prove to be hereafter ...
... corn or pick stones as we did . The women must not work in the fields nowadays , and the children are at school . So the work is not done and we are glad of an excuse to curtail expense , however injurious it may prove to be hereafter ...
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List of Illustrations Page | vii |
The Elizabethan Countrywoman | 17 |
Cavalier and Puritan Countrywomen | 43 |
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