“By the eighteenth century, most guilds did not include women, though sometimes widows who took over their husband’s businesses became members by default and took over the training of their husbands" apprentices”.
“By the eighteenth century, most guilds did not include women, though sometimes widows who took over their husband’s businesses became members by default and took over the training of their husbands" apprentices”.[https://www.londonlives.org/static/Guilds.jsp]
[https://www.londonlives.org/static/Guilds.jsp]January 1811
January 1811‘I couldn’t look at him; he was wretched and I’m furious. We were getting along fine. There wasn’t heaps of money left at the end of the day, but there was enough to feed and educate the boys and pay the rent. Now he’s being sent to New South Wales a
