Women of Victorian Sussex: Their Status, Occupations and Dealings with the Law, 1830-1870 - Softcover

Wojtczak, Helena

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9781904109051: Women of Victorian Sussex: Their Status, Occupations and Dealings with the Law, 1830-1870

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ISBN 10: 1904109055 ISBN 13: 9781904109051

Publisher: Hastings Press, 2003

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This work is a unique piece of research in areas so far neglected - women's occupations and their dealings with the law as plaintiffs and defendants. The author writes in a plain and straightforward style, which makes the book suitable for any adult reader. A comprehensive introductory chapter tells you all the background information you need to know about women's status in the mid-19th century, so that the main sections of the book are put into context. This book is highly educational, but at the same time entertaining. The many illustrations will amaze people who thought Victorian women did not go out to work or were not involved in business or trades. This book is a microcosm of Englishwomen's lives in the mid-19th century.

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Review:

A delightful read as well as an informative one. -- Pat Wheable

A forgotten world of daily struggles against appalling injustice – tragic, brave, stubborn, desperate and comic. -- Richard Elmore

Essential reading for those who wish to study early social conditions as part of their family or local history. -- Jim Brown

Miss Wojtczak has added a new lustre to the re-discovered history of women. -- Val Brown

Rather splendid... Fascinating stuff. -- Sussex Express

The book is a riot of colourful detail and diverting insight. -- Rachel Rodmire, local reviewer

Well-researched, scholarly and immensely readable ... provides a vivid account of life lived by women. -- Rt. Hon Tony Benn, letter to the author, January 2004

Will keep the reader spellbound. A fine reference book, worthy of a place on any historian’s book shelf. -- Ray Hatley, www.history.uk.com, December 2003

About the Author:

HELENA WOJTCZAK BSC (HONS) was born in Shoreham-by-Sea and grew up in Brighton and London. While working for the railway she took a degree in social sciences, specialising in psychology, followed by three years� postgraduate study in social and oral history. She has been a Consultant
Historian to the National Railway Museum, for which she co-wrote a major exhibition on female railway workers in 1996-7. In 1998 St Mary-in-the-Castle Arts Centre, Hastings, displayed her research on the suffrage movement and in 2002 she wrote and produced an exhibition on Victorian
Working Women for Hastings Museum.

Helena has written and designed two award-winning history websites: Railway Women in Wartime and Women of
Hastings and St Leonards and has contributed to several others including The Victorian Web and Encyclopedia Titanica. She has been featured in newspapers
and magazines, and has appeared on BBC television and radio.

Helena has previously written for the Oxford University Press, the Railway Ancestors Family History Society, the Hastings Press and Hunter House Publishing, as well as for various magazines. She lives in Sussex.

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