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Roxey Ann Caplin (1793 – 2 August 1888) was a British writer and inventor.
Biography
She was born in 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 prize medal of "Manufacturer, Designer and Inventor" for her corsetry designs.
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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
How shall the poet, in a single lay,
the glory of her age and time portray?
Suffice if for the wondering
