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Mary Ann Ashford
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[unknown] : [advertisement]
'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being burnt down, my attention was caught by one of the very numerous bills with which the boards, at that time surrounding it, were covered: it ran thus - "Susan Hopley; or the Life of a Maid Servant". This book, I thought to myself, must be a novelty...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
[unknown] : [newspapers]
'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Newspaper
[unknown] : [tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]
'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford Print: Broadsheet
Catherine Crowe : Susan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid Servant
'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fiction.' [However, Ashford was inspired by this work to write her own life story]
