Ana María Delgado, a resident of the parish of San Isidoro de Toledo, declared that she worked as a washerwoman, earning 2 reales a day to support herself. She also said that she was a single woman and that “I have no one to earn them for me”. This allusion refers to the absence of her husband, 24 years without him, without knowing his whereabouts or whether he is still alive or dead. Ana María also states that she has to subsist by her own means and that she has a house of her own in which she lives, the rent of which is worth 12 ducats (a method of valuation to refer to the value of the property). This is an example of a single woman seeking her future by working and having a comfortable personal situation.

Collection: Texts

Chronology: XVIII

Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University

Resource type: Historical source

Format: 1 page Manuscript

Source: Archivo Municipal de Toledo, Libro 7º de los Fondos del Estado de Legos de la Ciudad de Toledo, su Casco, Término y Legua para la Contribución de Utensilios de los años 1776, 1777, 1778. . Nº 35. Mujeres Casadas, sus maridos ausentes y separados. Ana María Delgado, 6 de febrero de 1778, fol. 3449

Language: Spanish

Date: 1778

Owner: Francisco García González (Modernalia)

Copyright: ©Seminario de Historia Social de la Población ©Archivo Municipal de Toledo

Abstract: Loneliness and neglect of a washerwoman for 24 years

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