La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII

La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII
6. POSSESSIONS
1.5d. Provincial newspaper.
3d. One yard of wall paper.
4d. Needle
6d. Sheets music-“a ribald song” about three Cherokee chiefs,
1762.
Three ounces of Dr. Benjamin Godfrey’s Cordial, a patent
medicine .
One installment of a serialized novel.
1s. A box of Dr. Anderson’s true Scots Pills, a patent medicine
1s.3d. Good-quality wooden stool.
7s.6d. copy of a complete novel.
15s. Oxfordshire rural laborer’s annual expenditure on soap and
candles, near the end of the century.
£1 Cottagers’ cheap clock.
£2 7s. Smallest of three models of Thomas Todd’s portable patent
washing machine, which could, one retailer claimed, “wash as
much in one hour as 3, 6, or ten women”.
£6 Second-hand spinning machine, a “forty-spindle jenny of the
best sort”
£16 Approximate worth of a gentelman’s mare, Wales 1770.
£43 17s. 6d. New gates and locks at Erdding estate in Wales, 1781. 1
Fuente: KIRSTIN OLSEN, Daily Life in 18 th Century England, Daily Life through History, The
Greenwood Press, Westport, 1999, pp. 202.
1 ALTICK, Shows of London, p. 47. COLLEY, Britons, p. 85. MUI AND MUI, Shops and Shopkeeping, pp.
230-3, 242. PORTER, English Society, pp. 234-5, 321-2. PORTER, London, pp. 92, 41.THOMPSON,
Customs in Common, pp. 366, 368. WATERSON, Servant’s Hall, p. 124, 138. WATKINS, “The Greening
Empire,” pp. 28-50.