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'It Buys Me Freedom': genteel lodging in late-seventeenth and eighteenth-century London
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posted on 2023-05-16, 20:53 authored by McEwan, J, Sharpe, PLodging, or else taking in lodgers, was a common way of life for many seventeenthand eighteenth-century Londoners, both rich and poor. While demographic historians have been attempting to gauge the extent of lodging in the metropolis for some time, the circumstance and experience of both lodgers and those who took them in has been subject to little detailed examination. Evidence drawn from sources such as diaries, newspaper advertisements, and court cases can give some specificity to our understanding of lodging arrangements. Concentrating on the middling orders and above, such sources highlight the importance of reputation and social credit for both those seeking lodgings and those offering rooms. It is apparent that for those who were not forced into lodging negotiations by financial necessity, other considerations linked with choice, such as networking and sociability, influenced decisions about when, where, and indeed whether to lodge.
History
Publication title
ParergonVolume
24Pagination
139-62ISSN
0313-6221Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern StudiesPlace of publication
CanberraRights statement
Copyright 2007 Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern StudiesRepository Status
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