15 minutes of fame: Hannah Humphrey, entrepreneurial Georgian printseller
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Women in the Late 18th Century
I don't think she was necessarily hiding her sex at all. I think that was just the world in which she operated in. She and Gilray didn't get married, although they were rumored to have had some relationship of some kind. So she's an unmarried woman who's just really good at her job. Those are the kind of women who disappear actually from the historical record.
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