History from underneath: girls experience in an era of economic change

The paper uses autobiographical accounts by 227 working women alongside a larger sample of men’s life stories to compare girl and boys’ experiences of first jobs, schooling and family life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It asks whether girls were disadvantaged in se...

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Main Author: Humphries, K
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: University of Oxford 2019