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as being a house wife she looked after the house and her children . when her husband was at sea she would usually mend the nets, looked after the hooks or watch the fish soup boiling ---- ans
As far as I know jenny never had any significant work to do . She was a housewife though which has its own chores, she was a dutiful woman. When her husband was at sea, she pretended to be a care taker , she cooked fish and wove nets to help her husband