Here are a ton of sites plus a best answer of two months ago. Hope this helps.http://www.google.com/search?q=Elizabethan+era+etiquette&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.google:en-US
fficial&client=firefox-aBest Answer - Chosen by VotersMarried women of all classes would have been responsible for managing their households, which was a very demanding job. As well as cooking and preserving food, this involved brewing ale to drink, making butter and cheese in the dairy, making preserves and medicines for household use. They were expected to spin wool and flax to make clothing. The hosuewife was also expected to know about first aid and medicine, since most people lived in the country in those days and there were few doctors within reach. Tudor household manuals even contain instructions for setting broken bones. Doing the household accounts was another housewive's job. and of course married women of all classes usually had a number of children, and the bearing and raising of them would also occupy quite a bit of their time.Even upper class women were expected to be actively involved in household management in those days, rather than just supervising. the wives of noblemen would manage their husbands' estates while their husbands were away, which was a very demanding task.the wives of men who were in trade would generally be actively involved in their husband's business, and some married women were in business on their own account. In 'The tudor Housewife' Alison sim writes:'In the sixteenth century work still revolved very much around the home, so that the split between work and family life was nowhere near as obvious as it is to us, and was sometimes non-existent. A woman might brew beer for use at home, but sell the surplus, just as her dairy might provide produce for both the home and the market place. A wealthy merchant's wife, who would expect to look after the family accounts, might well also do the accounts fo rher husband's business. A few intrepid women even ran businesses in their own right, and handled a great deal of money. A woman with a good head for business was certainly an asset to her family. there were also quite significant numbers of women who never married and therefore had no choice but to earn an independent living.' Widows would often run their husband's business after he had died.The daughters of the nobility and gentry were often married off young, sometimes in their early teens. Among the general population, it was more usual for people to marry in their mid-twenties. Young people of the lower classes usually worked until they had saved enough to marry. Young women often worked as domestic servants, which wasn't a bad way to earn a living in those days. A lot of women also worked in the textile trade, th esilk industry was a particularly lucrative employer for women. and women worked in other trades too, and as shopkeepers. Wahtever their occupation, young girls of all classes would have been taught household management by their mothers.Amusements that women of all classes would have enjoyed include music, singing, and dancing. Card playing and board games like chess and draughts were popular too. Women of the upper classes often did fine needlework in their spare time. And riding, hunting and hawking were popular occupations for both men and women of the upper classes. REading would have been popular, devotional works were very popular with women, and there were a lot of books on good conduct and etiquette, and of course household manuals. Going to the theatre became a popular amusement in the late Elizabethan period.Source(s):'Tudor Women' by Pearl Hogrefe'Tudor Women' by Alison Plowden'the tudor Housewife' by Alison Sim67% 2 Votes
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