
On the streets of 19th-century London
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Women in the Streets - What Is It All About?
Ause: The biggest disappointment is how much harder it is to get that proper first hand testimony of women in the street, unless they've been arrested. Women do not write memoirs of this sort of thing in this period except for a tiny handful of exceptions who have had a religious conversion and feel very strongly that they need to tell the world about it. Kato cagney is a milkmaid in the middle of the centuryit's incredibly strong,. She's working sort of eightee, 90 howr days carrying pails of milk around the entirety of london. And she will take no nonsense. She is a supremely capable street worker. But as a single woman there,
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