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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of Hinton's women worked in the laundry trade, with 19 laundresses in 1851, 34 in 1861, 71 in 1881, and 93 in 1891. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a hawker, an engine driver, and a few women working as laundresses or dressmakers. Of three grocers one was also a …
Survey of London
… were generally of the poorest classcostermongers, laundresses, general labourers. Sanitation was rudimentary, …