By Amanda Vickery
Eighteenth-century girls have lengthy been provided because the heroines of conventional biographies, or because the faceless sufferers of sizeable old strategies, yet not often have they been deemed useful of rigorous old enquiry. according to an in depth exam of letters, diaries and account books, this research bargains an perception into the intimate and daily lives of genteel ladies and transforms our realizing of the placement of ladies during this interval
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Thereby, the administration of the household, the management of servants, the guardianship of material culture and the organization of family consumption fell to their lot. Most were well prepared for this deluge of responsibility; in girlhood, many had copied and seconded their mothers, others heeded advice that they should begin a reference manual on matters material to the running of a house. A lady's work was managerial, but in this she resembled her husband. Gentlemen did not, after all, harvest corn or weave cloth themselves, but instructed servants, labourers and apprentices to do it for them: ‘To manage well a great Family’, acknowledged Richard Steele in 1710, ‘is as worthy an Instance of Capacity, as to execute a great Employment …’21 Even as conduct literature advocated female softness and obedience in one chapter, in another it minutely tutored privileged women on the exercise of power.
If the parish of Whalley was remote from polite resorts it was not in want of polite families. A host of well-established families inhabited the valley of the Lancashire Calder; their lasting monuments are the wealth of modest mansions still standing in the vicinity of Burnley and Colne. Dispersed at two- or three-mile intervals across the valley's lower slopes, most of these gentry residences had originally been built in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries, sometimes by prosperous yeomen, sometimes by the then smaller number of local gentry.
Second, when we consider those businesses that women pursued in their own right, continuity is again more apparent than change. Studies of fifteenth-century York and seventeenth-century London reveal a picture not so different from the 1851 census, with urban women already clustered in the so-called feminine trades: petty retail, food and drink, and textiles. One would search long and hard for significant numbers of female goldsmiths, blacksmiths, cabinet-makers, curriers and so on at any point in British history.