The variety of women's experiences as servants in England (1548–1649): evidence from church court depositions
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Mansell, Charmian
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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pThis article demonstrates, using evidence from church court depositions, that women's experience of service in early modern England was more varied than scholarship suggests. Moving beyond its conception as a life-cycle annual occupation, the article situates service within individual life-stories. It argues firstly, that service extended across the whole of women's working lives and secondly, that employment arrangements took a wide range of forms. Service for women is shown to have been flexible, varied and contingent, employing a diversity of individuals under a variety of different employment agreements.</jats:p>
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44 Human Society, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4403 Demography
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Continuity and Change
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0268-4160
1469-218X
1469-218X
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33
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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