| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pen & Sword history |
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Pen & Sword history
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| Contents |
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One Education -- Elizabeth and Ellen Sewell -- Chapter Two Health -- Childbirth, and Female eproductive Rights -- Contraception -- Abortion -- Professional Healthcare -- Vaccinations and Preventative Measures -- Chapter Three Women at Work -- Domestic Service -- Drapery, Dressmaking, and Millinery -- Assistants and Helpers -- Lodging Houses, Apartments, and Boarding Houses -- Business Owners -- World Wars One and Two -- Chapter Four Love and Relationships -- Divorce -- Courting -- Marriage |
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Same-sex Relationships -- Chapter Five In the Home -- Chapter Six Leisure -- Clubs and Societies -- Charity Work -- Hitting the Town -- Parties and Fêtes -- Magazines -- Plate section -- Chapter Seven Fashion -- Chapter Eight Art -- Chapter Nine Women and Crime -- Prisoners and Criminals -- Careers Within the System -- Chapter Ten Mental Health -- Hysteria -- Lunatics, Idiots, and Imbeciles -- Post-natal Depression -- Care -- Chapter Eleven Women in Wartime -- Wives and Widows -- Rationing -- Threats from Overseas -- Chapter Twelve Suffrage -- Acknowledgements -- Resources -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Ask somebody to give you the name of a woman from history and they'll probably give you a queen's. If not royalty, it'll be a famous courtesan, a noblewoman, a rogue. Some women manage to be all four things at once. Take a look outside, however, and you'll see a diverse range of women, all with their own set of experiences, preferences, feelings and thoughts - their own stories. And every one of these women will have just one thing in common; they are completely and utterly ordinary. Ordinary women don't make it into history books - until now. A History of Women's Lives of the Isle of Wight focuses in on women who were living on the Island between 1850 and 1950. These ladies were not queens. They weren't courtesans, or rogues, or royalty. They were just like the women you see every single day. They thought their own thoughts; they felt their own feelings; and they have been lost to time. Because a woman must be more than ordinary to be remembered. Except what is ordinary? Is it a single mother nursing her child through a deadly disease? Is it giving up on your own dreams to take on the role of mother when yours passes on? Is it becoming one of the greatest artists of the modern era, only to wind up with none of your paintings on display in any of the most prestigious museums?We're not all queens. But in being ordinary, maybe we're really extraordinary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- England -- Isle of Wight -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Women -- England -- Isle of Wight -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Women -- England -- Isle of Wight -- History -- 19th century
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Women -- England -- Isle of Wight -- History -- 20th century
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Women
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Women -- Social conditions
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England -- Isle of Wight
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526720306 |
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1526720302 |
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9781526720320 |
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1526720329 |
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