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  • Our Mothers' Land

    Chapters in Welsh Women's History, 1830-1939

    de Angela V John ...
    Series series Gender Studies in Wales
    This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women's history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women's community sanctions and the perils facing collier's wife to the very different lifestyles ... Leer más

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  • Rocking the Boat

    Welsh Women Who Championed Equality 1840-1990

    de Angela V John ...
    This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The essays challenge expectations about how women's lives were lived in the last two centuries, as well as raise issues of gender and nationality. From the pioneer doctor and champion ... Leer más

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  • Spring's Green Shadow

    de Cecily MackWorth ...
    Laura Gethryn spends the first 7 years of her life in the shadow of the Black Mountains. Her horsey mother idolizes the absent soldier and his return a broken man, emasculated by the Great War, leaves them destined to remain the disappointed parents of a single girl child. Caught up in the dance of dysfunction that is their marriage, they hand over Laura's education to Mr Howells, a very different ... Leer más

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  • Turning the Tide

    The Life of Lady Rhondda

    de Angela V John ...
    Drawing upon a varied array of sources, many of which were previously unused, this rich biography explores the public achievements and the fascinating private world of one of the most influential people in British society in the first half of the 20th century. The book tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas, the Second Viscountess Rhondda, a Welsh suffragette who held important posts ... Leer más

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  • Elizabeth Robins

    Staging a Life

    de Angela V John ...
    Beautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography examines Elizabeth's historical identity and provides a study of the social culture surrounding a woman who lived a life in the spotlight. ... Leer más

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  • By the Sweat of Their Brow

    Women workers at Victorian Coal Mines

    de Angela V. John ...
    Series series Economic History
    The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women’s work in the nineteenth century.Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain, cruelly torn from her ‘natural sphere’, the home. The, attempt to restrict women’s work at the mines in ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The Men's Share?

    Masculinities, Male Support and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1890-1920

    Edición de Claire Eustance, Prof Angela V John, Angela V. John ...
    The opposition of men to women's suffrage is well-known. However, men's support for women's suffrage is a neglected subject. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, over one thousand men were prepared to join societies and actively work for women's suffrage, whilst many other men offered support. The Men's Share?, edited by Angela John and Claire Eustance, examines who these men were, ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life

    1862-1952

    de Prof Angela V John, Angela V. John ...
    A woman of extraordinary energy, talent and versatility. Elizabeth Robins was an actress who popularised Ibsen on the British stage, a prolific and popular writer of novels and non-fiction, and an Edwardian suffragette. Her extensive circle of friends included Florence Bell, Henry James, John Masefield and William Archer. She worked with the Pankhursts and knew the Woolfs. Through examining the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

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  • A Century of Female Revolution

    From Peterloo to Parliament

    de Glynis Cooper ...
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  • Australia's Birthstain

    de Babette Smith ...
    A groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past.; Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to cover up its past? Babette Smith traces the ... Leer más

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  • Stella Miles Franklin

    A Biography

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