C is for Carmen, Carriers, and Carters I’m going to tend to be biased towards any professi
C is for Carmen, Carriers, and Carters I’m going to tend to be biased towards any professions involving a horse, so here’s a Carter. I got the dog from this wonderful description of Carters and Carmen – “He is invariably attended by a dog, which might have been trained by Ducrow, for it is capable of riding upon anything, from a cask to the end of a sugar-cane, and all it seems to delight in is balancing itself on all kinds of imaginable things, and barking at every object that passes”. Women were a very small set of the 29,000 in this profession in England and Wales in 1881, they would have to be tough characters. I bypassed the 302,367 women employed in Cotton Manufacture– the third largest group; also charwomen, costermongers, confectioners (13,051!), chandlers, chemists (631) coal-dealers, and a surprising number of Clerks- almost 6000, and another 3000 in the civil service, a profession I thought was all-male. -- source link