Name Roxey Caplin | Role Writer | |
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Died August 1888, Mortlake, London, United Kingdom | ||
Roxey Ann Caplin (1793 – 2 August 1888) was a British writer and inventor.
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Biography
She was born in 1793 in Canada. Around 1835 she married Jean Francois Isidore Caplin (c.1790-c.1872).
From 1839 Madame Caplin was a corsetmaker working at 58 Berners Street, London.
At the Great Exhibition in 1851 she was awarded the prize medal of "Manufacturer, Designer and Inventor" for her corsetry designs.
In 1860 she became a member of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).
She died in Mortlake, Surrey.
Work
She wrote books and articles, notably:
- 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.
- Health and Beauty - 1856 version
- Health and Beauty - 1864 version.
- Woman and Her Wants; Four Lectures To Ladies (1860);
- Women in the Reign of the Queen Victoria (1876) with J. Mill.
The corsets from the Great Exhibition in 1851 are in the Museum of London.
She had filed 24 patents by 1864.
How shall the poet, in a single lay,
the glory of her age and time portray?
Suffice if for the wondering world to mark
She took from all beside the medal in Hyde Park;
The only prize that was for corsets given
to any manufacturer under heaven.
Lo! the dazzling splendours of her fame advance
O'er 'All England' and the whole of France
She, the beloved, who now fills Brunswick's throne
Deals with Madame Caplin — her alone;
Why need I paint the heroine of my lays,
Or tell the land where passed her virgin days;
'Twas Canada!'-above all colonies renowned—
that heard my heroine's praises first resound,
You'll an incarnation of the graces meet
at No. 58 in Berners Street.
Science and pure benevolence combined,
A deity in human form enshrined;
Gracious demeanour, and courtly mien,
Learning and worth are thine, great Native queen.