Frances Carver

Standard Name: Carver, Frances

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By 11 February 1718

A hawker named Frances Carver (Blind Fanny) was arrested for singing Jacobite ballads: this did not put an end to her career, which she pursued for another quarter century.

McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.

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By 18 October 1743

The hawker Frances Carver (Blind Fanny) was imprisoned in Old Bridewell Prison for selling newspapers without the government stamp.

McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.

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