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1 - Bred in the Exchange: Seamstresses and Shopkeepers
Laura Gowing, King's College London
Book:

Ingenious Trade

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29 November 2021

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16 December 2021, pp 11-54
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Chapter 1 presents a social and spatial reconstruction of the Royal Exchange, at the heart of London’s trade, as a place of women’s work. An apprentice imprisoned for debt shows how young women moved through the shops of the Exchange, working, shopping and using and losing credit. As the Exchange recovered after the Fire, women moved into at least half of its small shops; they also lived close by, often sharing lodgings, and made networks of patronage and credit through and outside the City companies. As apprentices, mistresses, shopkeepers and outworkers, women were central to the sewing industry which made early modern fashion.