The English Countrywoman: A Farmhouse Social History, A.D. 1500-1900A. Melrose, 1953 - 221 páginas |
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... Perhaps it was not so bad after all . The Thames then was not the muddy river of today . It was the poet's silvery Thames in spite of the shocking garbage that flowed into it from the Fleet River and other reeking open drains of the ...
... Perhaps it was not so bad after all . The Thames then was not the muddy river of today . It was the poet's silvery Thames in spite of the shocking garbage that flowed into it from the Fleet River and other reeking open drains of the ...
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... perhaps aston- ished villagers . The change has been summed up in a sentence , " the farmer's wife now drove , not indeed to market , but to an Assembly in a post - chaise " . Did they go so far as to take snuff like some great ladies ...
... perhaps aston- ished villagers . The change has been summed up in a sentence , " the farmer's wife now drove , not indeed to market , but to an Assembly in a post - chaise " . Did they go so far as to take snuff like some great ladies ...
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... perhaps the swede hacking . The leaves were often wet , the crop was grown on the bleak down where cold winds blew , a stooping position was necessary and the hours were long . The women worked shrouded in Hessian wrappers , sleeved ...
... perhaps the swede hacking . The leaves were often wet , the crop was grown on the bleak down where cold winds blew , a stooping position was necessary and the hours were long . The women worked shrouded in Hessian wrappers , sleeved ...
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List of Illustrations Page | vii |
Chapter 1 The Elizabethan Countrywoman | 17 |
Cavalier and Puritan Countrywomen | 43 |
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Agricultural amongst bake beef behaviour boiled bread butter century cheese clothes contemporary cook corn cottage housewife country housewife cows dairy dairymaid dancing daughters Delightes for Ladies dish domestic Dorothy Osborne Dorset dress drink Duchess duties Elizabeth Elizabethan employed employment England English example farm farmer's wife farmers farmhouse father fields fire flowers garden gentry girls Halsham hand Hannah Woolley harvest herbs household housekeeper housewife's housewives husband keep kitchen labourers learned lived London Lucy Hutchinson maids manor marriage married Mary Astell meal meat milk Milton Abbas mistress MOP FAIR mother neighbouring parish perhaps pigs pillion pleasure poor potatoes poultry pudding rural rushlights seasons servants Silas Marner soap spinning Squire tasks things Thomas Thomas Tusser thought town village wages wash Wiltshire winter wives women workers wrote yeoman young woman