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Esther Sleepe - Wikipedia

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Esther Sleepe (1725–1762), was an English fan-maker.^[1]

Family

She was born to Richard Sleepe, Head of the City Waits (d.1758) and the fan maker Esther Dubois (1693-1773), and the sister of Mary Sleepe Samson and Martha Sleepe. In 1749 she married the musician Charles Burney and became the mother of Charles Burney, Susanahh Elizabeth Burney and Fanny Burney.^[2]

Business

From 1747, the Sleepe sisters managed their own workshop, The Golden Fan & Seven Stars in London, where they manufactured and sold fans and other luxury items. They were very successful. After her marriage, Esther Sleepe was the one supporting her family financially, since the profession of her spouse was poorly paid, but this fact was hidden after her generation, since the Burney family had an ambition to be seen as upper class, where it was not seen as proper for a lady to be professionally active.^[2]

One of her business cards are preserved at the British Museum:

"Esther Sleepe...Makes, Mounts and Sells all Sorts of India and English Fans with great Variety of French & English Necklaces, Drops & Earrings after the most modern Taste. Wholesale and Retail at reasonable Rates. NB. Fans mended after the neatest Manner."^[2]

She was one of the successful eighteenth-century London businesswomen portrayed in the exhibition 'City Women in the eighteenth Century' in London 21 September – 18 October 2019.^[3]

References

^ Erickson, A. Sleepe [married name Burney], Esther (1725–1762), fan-maker. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 11 February 2023, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-369086.
^ ^a ^b ^c Erickson, A. (2018). Esther Sleepe, Fan-maker, and her Family. Eighteenth Century Life, 42 (2), 15-37.
^ "London's forgotten businesswomen". 20 September 2019.

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