Marginalien

Dailymedievalcats @dailymedievalcats.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Dinner for two?

Ms: Bl, Add 42130, f. 26r (14th c.). #medievalcat #medieval

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 16:13 UTC

Oh, and of course if we are talking about a category including a lot of young women, deaths in childbirth would also be a factor. 1925 was about a decade before the great final plunge in the frequency of such deaths began.

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:26 UTC

for someone without the income to properly support them taking in sewing to make a little money. If the classification used here includes people in that sort of role, it could make a bit more sense. But that's very much a guess.

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:26 UTC

My only guess for tailors would be poverty. Looking at census entries from the 19th century, you see a lot of women still living with their parents entered as "tailoress", or occasionally "pauper tailoress". Like it's being used in a context where you might have expected "seamstress"...

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 09:09 UTC

"after drinking" yeah I think we could have figured that part out for ourselves

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:19 UTC

I'd say the only widely recognised rural English accents are West Country (especially Somerset) and perhaps Norfolk, which are also the areas with an established stereotype of rusticity.

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 20:18 UTC

This doesn't wholly match, as northern England, in both demographic reality and popular image, is largely urban and industrial or post-industrial. Its widely recognised accents (Scouse, Manc, Geordie) are essentially urban, with the exception of Yorkshire, which spans the urban-rural divide.

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Marginalien @anaire.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:42 UTC

I think what you have there is the figure for Scotland, not the UK, whose density is about 718 people per square mile. Only four US states are denser.

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