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She earned money by crocheting antimacassars and occasional sex work.

“Somebody bought them to make them into antimacassars,” Schreier says, her voice rising in outrage.

Though my memories of that summer are mostly indoor memories—memories of antimacassars and tea towels and biscuits—I retain a vivid outdoor memory as well.

Annie’s addiction propelled her from the top of the working class, wife of the head coachman on a country estate, into a hand-to-mouth existence hawking crocheted antimacassars and flowers.

The adults’ entries were delicate works of art, collars and antimacassars as detailed and fine as a spider’s web.