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History of Women's Lives on the Isle of Wight (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This look at everyday life for women on a small island off the British coast brings the female experience to the forefront of history. Ask somebody to give you the name of a woman from history and they'll probably mention a queen. But most women's lives were lived far from a palace, and this unique history delves into the experiences of a diverse range of women living on the Isle of Wight between 1850 and 1950. It covers many aspects of their world, from education to health to relationships to leisure activities, and reveals that-just like the women of today-each had her own thoughts, feelings, and preferences. The only thing they had in common was that they were utterly ordinary-but what is ordinary? Is it a single mother nursing her child through a deadly disease? Is it giving up on your own dreams to take on the role of mother when yours passes on? Is it becoming one of the greatest artists of the modern era, only to wind up with none of your paintings on display in any of the most prestigious museums? As this book shows, the ordinary can be extraordinary, and women don't have to be queens to have stories worth telling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen and Sword History
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526720313
• Artikelnr.: 60863080

Autorenporträt

Daisy Plant has always been fascinated with stories. Imagine her joy when she discovered history, and realised that the world was made up of millions of individual ones all bound together! She decided early on that she was going to dedicate herself to sharing stories - both real and imagined. A History of Women's Lives of the Isle of Wight is her first book, but she has experience writing historical fiction in the form of radio-play 1916.