INVISIBLE WOMAN: ASPECTS OF WOMEN'S WORK IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN; ED. BY ISABELLE BAUDINO

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Since Alice Clark's pioneering study most social historians writing about working women in pre-nineteenth-century Britain have tried to throw light on fairly large occupational groups of working women, such as factory workers or domestic servants, often in an attempt to reach some conclusive evidence as to the evolution of their general standards of living.