CC
's account of her girlhood, says historian Margaret R. Hunt
, is one of the most detailed that survives from the middle ranks of society. She says proudly that she had a liberal education...
Occupation
Charlotte Charke
Forced to find work outside the theatre, CC
took a grocer's shop in Long Acre, Covent Garden, where she apparently made a living less by sales (for her stock was minimal) than by acting...
Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth Bury
EB
recorded her perplexing Difficulties over poor relations seeking money. She feared either dishonouring God, by intangling myself in Debts, or rendering herself incapable of helping other Afflicted people.
Margaret R. Hunt
cites this entry...
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Texts
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
