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Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Britain : The Working Girl - Deborah Simonton

Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Working Girl

By: Deborah Simonton

eText | 16 December 2025 | Edition Number 1

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This book draws on a wide range of sources to provide the first comprehensive account of the experience of eighteenth-century working girlhood across all regions of Britain, examining the lifecycle stage of growing up for the middling and lower classes as they worked and prepared for a life of work.

Studies of history have often tended to slide over the distinct history of girls in its focus on women's history, merging their stories into broader narratives. This volume continues the more recent historical reclamation of girls and girlhood as a useful analytical tool, while also specifically addressing the lacunae in histories of eighteenth-century working girls. Examining the role of home, schools and apprenticeships in girls' upbringing, it considers how mobility shaped their trajectories. Furthermore, it examines sociability, love, sex and the 'misfortunes' they might encounter. An underpinning message is the active role that girls played in shaping their own destinies using whatever tools were at their disposal.

Written in an accessible style and bridging gaps in the literature, this volume is a valuable resource for university courses in the history of childhood and women's studies/history.

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