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36 woman's wobk in the world's clothing....
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The Traveller Mounting Some Steep Ascent...
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writer modicum before p of leisure quoted th , at while mig , ht acknowled have been ging allowed that it ; was but not the devote herself to it
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provide the doomed whole the to matter world unmiti with gated : however clothing a _^ p almost woman , what ceaseless could g be toil done in so y order long eing as to - of it but the
no other means had been discovered producing must action over of her -ride patient all else and . _Necessity industriou knows s fingers no ! law for , this and argument " it must
hands needs And be fell how hail after small . " all a to portion the share of the of resul her who t of did the so work much of . her A for the
russet lab five ourer days in , in which and 1296 a woman he had was to ' s clad pay pay , was equal nin always epence to the considerabl a yard earnings at y of less least . four co than arse or
a man ' swhile her clothing' requirements were as days a great day ' . , labour his In , cloth 1463 to purchase cost whil two e the that shillings labourer quantity ' per s wages . yard Alas , were so then that but for it fourpence the took poor six
wom d . an Could who at the this enactment period could have been earn necessary no more which than 2 forbade _^ d . per
her exceeded ay "to twelvepence wear any " kerchief ? or which whereof decreed the that pli her ght girdle ( lid should . yd . ) the soldierswitli all
not be garnished with silver" ? Even , their often opportunities but half of clothed predatory and seizure Barbour , were says , of during the Welsh these - ' . * ;
men ages , in Edward ' s army at Bannockburn , " For Where they ' er well they near yied all mig naked ht men were them . " ken ,
webster It is not s tho surprising ugh they then wer that e , the , flax majority -dresser of s fe and males spinsters had scant and that Chaucer
a apparel female and farmer that of of the his meanest day , after kind say ; ing or that— describing ;
" No dainty morsel passed through her throat , " should add ,
Her diet was according to her coat . "
! ( To he continued . )
36 Woman's Wobk In The World's Clothing....
36 woman s wobk in the world ' s clothing . JJ
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1863, page 36, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091863/page/36/
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