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Roxey Ann Caplin

Roxey Ann Caplin (c. 1793 – 2 August 1888) was a British writer and inventor.

Biography

She was born in about 1793 in Canada. Around 1835, she married Jean Francois Isidore Caplin (c.1790-c.1872).

From 1839, Caplin was a corsetmaker working at 58 Berners Street, London.

At the Great Exhibition in 1851, she was awarded the "Manufacturer, Designer and Inventor" medal for her corsetry designs. The corsets from the Great Exhibition in 1851 are in the Museum of London.

In 1860, she became a member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA). By 1864, she had filed 24 patents.

She died on 2 August 1888 at Cambridge Lodge, St Leonard's East Sheen in Surrey. Her effects were valued at £6452, a considerable estate for a tradesman in this period.

Madame Caplin

Selected works

  • Health and Beauty: or, Woman and Her Clothing, Considered in Relation to the Physiological Laws of the Human Body (1850);
  • Health and Beauty – 1854 version.
  • Woman and Her Wants; Four Lectures To Ladies (1860);
  • Women in the Reign of the Queen Victoria (1876) with J. Mill.

References

Sources

  • Kelly's London Postal Directory, London, 1859–62; Times, London, 4 August 1888, p. 1.
  • Dummy for Stays; designs, no. 669 year 1841
  • The Hygean or Corporifom Corset; usefuld designs, no. 1995 year 1849
  • S. Levitt, Victorians unbuttoned: registered designs for clothing, their makers and wearers, 1839–1900 (1986), 26–30
  • R. A. Caplin, Health and beauty, or, Corsets and clothing (1856)
  • R. A. Caplin, The needle: its history and utility (1860)
  • R. A. Caplin and J. Mill, Women in the reign of Queen Victoria [1876]
  • J. F. I. Caplin, Selection of documents and autograph letters in testimony of the cures effected by the electro-chemical bath of J. F. I. Caplin (1865)
  • J. F. I. Caplin, 'Prospectus of the Manchester Hygiaenic Gymnasium', Catalogue of the works exhibited in the British section of the exhibition ... together with exhibitors' prospectuses, 10 (1856)
  • J. T. S. Lidstone, The Londoniad: a grand national poem on the arts (1856)
  • registered design, 1841, TNA: PRO, BT 42, no. 669
  • registered design, 1849, TNA: PRO, BT 45, no. 1995
  • PO street directories, London, Mortlake, and Manchester
  • census returns for Mortlake, 1881
  • d. cert. Likenesses C. Silvy, photograph, c.1864, reproduced in Caplin, Selection of documents · photogravure photograph, c.1875, reproduced in Caplin and Mill, Women in the reign of Queen Victoria Wealth at death £6452 19s. 10d.: probate, 5 September 1888, CGPLA England & Wales

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