Esther Sleepe, Fan-maker, and her Family
Accepted version
Peer-reviewed
Repository URI
Repository DOI
Change log
Authors
Erickson, AL
Abstract
Esther Sleepe Burney, the wife of Charles and mother of Frances, features almost not at all in the literature on the Burney family. This paper introduces her, her sisters and her mother, as part of a London fan-making enterprise that was highly lucrative and female-dominated, although by no means exclusively female. The family trade is set in the context of women’s involvement in the luxury trades of eighteenth-century London, as both owners and employees.
Description
Keywords
English literature, 1700-1799, Burney, Frances(1752-1840), 0000 0001 2144 2447, Burney, Charles(1726-1814), 0000 0001 1844 6834, Burney, Esther Sleepe, fan, biographical information, material culture, folk craft, household items, England
Journal Title
Eighteenth Century Life
Conference Name
Journal ISSN
0098-2601
1086-3192
1086-3192
Volume Title
42
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publisher DOI
Sponsorship
This research began life with a grant from the Leverhulme Trust (F/09 674/G),
“The Occupational Structure of England and Wales, ca. 1379–ca. 1729.”