[Pauline]

Helena Wojtczak has written a new book called WOMEN OF VICTORIAN SUSSEX
Their Status, Occupations and Dealings with the Law, 1830 ~ 1870.

The book is published by Hastings Press and describes working class women working in well over 150 occupations at that period, in Sussex alone, dispelling old views that women had limited occupational opportunity.

Please see the site here, where more of Helena's publications are also detailed.

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.