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1. Felicity was equally at home in the reeking streets about Aldermanbury Postern and the drawing rooms of St Albans Street because her father swung between ruin and prosperity throughout her childhood. What was his profession?
2. We are not introduced to any of Felicity's friends from the rich side of the tracks (we are encouraged to believe that she was happier when poor), but we do meet Fingers who taught her how to pick pockets. He was an orphan who claimed to have been abandoned on a sack in the market place, and brought himself up. This story would have been hard to believe but for the fact that he had a passion for a certain raw vegetable. Which one?
3. Because of their see-saw lifestyle, Felicity's mother was determined that Felicity have a profession to rely on, and decided to apprentice her to a dressmaker as soon as she had the £5 premium required. What was the dressmaker's name?
4. What happened to Felicity's father when he went to avenge what had been done to her?
5. Pulling strings, Mother was able to apprentice Felicity to the dressmaker and she had no choice but to go. What she learned there was to influence the rest of her life, for the injustices and tricks of the apprenticeship system were impressed upon her first-hand as one of the learners. As time went by she saw her mother deteriorate and was determined to break free of the indenture to look after her at home. What did she do?
6. Back in Tun's Yard with her mother, Felicity washed and ironed, collected and delivered bundles and cared for Mother. The older woman had deteriorated into a lush since her husband's death and there was only a certain period of each day when she was able to work properly, and then she demanded her share of the money made to continue drinking although Felicity needed to keep some back for soap and to buy food for them both. What drink did her mother demand that she bought?
7. Where did Felicity plan to go once she had sold everything after her mother's death?
8. What was unusual about the Old Vine under Rupert Hatton's ownership?
9. Rupert left the house and most of his money to Felicity in his Will, and this fact was known by the young solicitor's son, who set about wooing her prior to his death. George Turnbull persuaded Felicity to enter into a form of marriage which was legal, but by proxy, which might or might not be upheld in a court of law. By what name was this type of marriage called?
10. Felicity kept a record of all the marriage proposals she received (and refused) after Rupert's death, while she remained as strange as her cousin before her. Just as Rupert was effeminate, Felicity was masculine and self-sufficient. It was some years before she married and had children (and died in childbirth), but who did she marry?
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