I is for Indoor Servant The biggest category by miles, making up nearly 1 in 10 of working age women
I is for Indoor Servant The biggest category by miles, making up nearly 1 in 10 of working age women. Ubiquitous wallpaper in endless novels and the butt of a million Punch cartoons, but seldom seriously characterised. Rosanna Spearman in The Moonstone comes to mind as an exception. ‘Innkeeper or Publican’ was the first drawing I did as inspiration for this series, so I’ve put her in as well. My alternatives were slim– a smattering of Ink Manufacture Workers, India Rubber melter-downers, and the somewhat mysterious 50 'Inland Navigation’ women who were not however Bargewomen (lock-keepers, perhaps?); and a few dozen 'Image Makers and Dealers’ who are distinct from Photographers or Artists– printmakers I suppose? -- source link
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