Chapter 4 Wiser than Her Neighbors: Cunning Reputation in the London Suburbs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: From Billingsgate to Bankside: Working Women and Spatial Injustice 1
5. Chapter 1 “Scolding Impudent Slut”: Fishwives and the Gendering of Billingsgate 21
6. Chapter 2 “Tents of the Unclean”: Smithfield Fair Traders and Pie Corner Law 51
7. Chapter 3 Gendering the Shop: The Upper Pawn of the Royal Exchange 83
8. Chapter 4 Wiser than Her Neighbors: Cunning Reputation in the London Suburbs 117
9. Chapter 5 “The Wicked Women of Eutopia”: Holland’s Leaguer on the Bankside 161
10. Epilogue: “Poor Shifting Sisters”: Scholarship on Women and Place 191
11. Index