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STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Edited by

The Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science

No. 56 in the series of Monographs by writers connected

With the London School of Economics and Political Science


THE WORKING LIFE OF WOMEN
IN THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY


Working Life of Women

IN THE

Seventeenth Century

BY

ALICE CLARK

Shaw Research Student of the London School of Economics and Political Science

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.

NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO.

1919


DEDICATED

TO MY

FATHER AND MOTHER