21. The son of a shoemaker and washerwoman , Andersen was born in poverty in 1805. 22. Many working-class women worked as washerwomen , taking in laundry for a fee. 23. She followed him into the lower kingdom and stayed with a washerwoman , helping her. 24. The melody of the traditional Irish jig The Irish Washerwoman is repeated throughout the short. 25. To Americans, the most familiar Irish jig tune is " The Irish Washerwoman ." 26. Illiterate, Anne Marie Andersdatter worked as a washerwoman in Odense but also begged on the streets. 27. In his household she served as a lowly servant, likely either a scullery maid or washerwoman . 28. The exhibit made use of a recently acquired Fragonard entitled " Landscape With Three Washerwomen ". 29. Earlier, Allason had balked at paying 40 pounds for Sukey, a washerwoman wearing a head wrap. 30. "He is one of us, " said Beatriz Tovar Mendieta, a washerwoman here.
