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The remarkable biography of a mother of ten who stepped up to run her late husband's ironworks in Victorian Wales.
When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age, over their nineteen-year long marriage husband and wife enjoyed great happiness and much adventure. There would be ten children,...
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The biography of an activist who dedicated her long life to standing up for women, children, and the poor.
Charlotte Despard, social reformer and suffragette, was always known as Mrs. Despard, never Charlotte. Her name should be as familiar to historians as those of Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett-yet she remains overlooked.
Born in 1844, she found solace in literature during a difficult childhood, identifying with Milton's Satan and the...
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Isabella Bird traveled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad.' In Japan she rode on a 'yezo savage' through foaming floods along unbeaten tracks and was followed in the city by a crowd of a thousand, whose clogs clattered 'like a hailstorm' as they vied for a glimpse of the foreigner. She documented America before and after the Civil War and was deported...
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"A unique and inherently fascinating history that brings a particular aspect of the role of women in law enforcement up out of obscurity." -Midwest Book Review
The 1857 Divorce Act paved the way for a new career for women: that of the private detective. To divorce, you needed proof of adultery-and men soon realized that women were adept at infiltrating households and befriending wives, learning secrets and finding evidence.
Over the course of the...
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A great nursing reformer, Ethel Gordon Fenwick was born before the age of the motor car and died at the start of the jet age. When she began her career, nursing was a vocation, unregulated with a dangerous variety of standards and inefficiencies. A gifted nurse, Ethel worked alongside great medical men of the day and, aged 24, she became the youngest matron of St Bartholomew's hospital London, where she instigated many improvements. At that time,...
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