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A common occupation was to be a spinster--to spin wool or flax into thread which could be woven into cloth. Enough cloth to make a suit of clothes took an awful lot of thread, and until the spinning jenny was invented in the 19th century, it had to be spun by hand. There was a constant demand for spinsters.
Women could also engage in cottage industries: making candles or soap or other useful things which could be done at home and which did not require a large capital outlay.
A common job for women who were somewhat richer was to run a tavern or brewery or both (the two go naturally together).
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