Gill Blanchard

Struggle and Suffrage in Norwich (eBook, ePUB)

Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A local historian explores the lives of women-both ordinary and extraordinary-who fought for change in Norwich, England, from 1850-1950. Norwich has been home to notable women, such as Mabel Clarkson, the first female sheriff in England who went on to serve as Lord Mayor of Norwich in the 1930s. But the history of Norwich has also been shaped by many other women whose stories too often remain in the shadows. In Struggle and Suffrage in Norwich, local historian Gill Blanchard sheds light on the lives of Norwich women who fought poverty, campaigned for voting rights, and had a lasting impact on their city. Blanchard tells the stories of divorcee Elizabeth Gurney; suffragette Miriam Pratt; nurse Philippa Flowerday, blacksmith Elizabeth Sabberton; economist and writer Harriet Martineau; abolitionist and writer Amelia Opie; Dorothy Jewson, the first female MP in Norwich and East Anglia; and numerous schoolteachers, clerks, tradeswomen, weavers, WWI munitionettes, and more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword History
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526717634
• Artikelnr.: 62660001

Autorenporträt

Gill Blanchard is an experienced family and local history researcher, teacher and lecturer. She has an academic background in history,sociology and politicsand has been conducting family, house and local history research on a full-time professional basis since 1992. She began her research career by working at Norfolk Record Office assisting the public with their genealogical and local history research, and she set up her own research company in 1997. She teaches a range of family history courses locally, nationally and online. Among her most recent publications are Tracing Your House History and Writing Your Family History.