Mildred Ransom's Bureau - Cowen, Ruth
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In 1894 the redoubtable Mildred Ransom set up a 'Copying Bureau' to generate work for herself and other respectable women beyond the usual roles of nurse or governess. Starting with one typewriter in a single room above a chemist's shop, she rapidly expanded into elegant chambers on the Edgware Road and finally a grand house in Cumberland Place. The Bureau's varied clientele provides an evocative snapshot of the age. From Lords, socialites, authors, scientists and politicians to quacks, spivs and charlatans - all of life poured through its doors. Often working for both sides in scandalous…mehr

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In 1894 the redoubtable Mildred Ransom set up a 'Copying Bureau' to generate work for herself and other respectable women beyond the usual roles of nurse or governess. Starting with one typewriter in a single room above a chemist's shop, she rapidly expanded into elegant chambers on the Edgware Road and finally a grand house in Cumberland Place. The Bureau's varied clientele provides an evocative snapshot of the age. From Lords, socialites, authors, scientists and politicians to quacks, spivs and charlatans - all of life poured through its doors. Often working for both sides in scandalous divorces and libel trials, in the 1920s Mildred and her staff were responsible for breaking a Russian spy ring, resulting in a sensational Old Bailey Trial. Recognising that the City would eventually replace their legion of (male) clerks with in-house typewriters, Mildred attached a secretarial college to the Bureau to ensure her girls would be sought after, well-paid and independent women. And all while steering the Bureau through two world wars, the General Strike, a flu pandemic, poisonous London smogs and violent civil unrest that spilled onto the streets right outside - and sometimes straight through - her windows. MILDRED RANSOM'S BUREAU is a book about the world - of work, women's lives, and politics - of London and England in the first half of the twentieth century; a world both hauntingly familiar and as distant and strange as an alien planet.
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Ruth Cowen is an historian, multi-award-winning author, journalist, broadcaster, editor and speaker. Her first book RELISH: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF ALEXIS SOYER, VICTORIAN CELEBRITY CHEF won the Jeremy Round First Book Award and the Guild of Food Writers Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the Glenfiddich Award and the Irish Book Awards. MILDRED RANSOM'S BUREAU will be published in 2022.