Diary of a Suffolk Farmer's Wife, 1854-69 A Woman of Her Time |
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| Author:
| Hardy, Sheila |
| Editor:
| Campling, Jo |
| ISBN: | 978-0-333-52409-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1992 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $139.00 |
Book Description:
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Brought up amid the lively coaching business, Elizabeth Cotton became the wife of a Suffolk tenant farmer twenty years her senior. The diaries she kept between 1854-1869 give accounts of her everyday activities, a busy social life, which included holiday travel around the country and to France, as well as a wide range of current fashions and events. Sheila Hardy has taken this information to expand our knowledge of life for a mid-Victorian middle class woman.
Brought up amid the lively coaching business, Elizabeth Cotton became the wife of a Suffolk tenant farmer twenty years her senior. The diaries she kept between 1854-1869 give accounts of her everyday activities, a busy social life, which included holiday travel around the country and to France, as well as a wide range of current fashions and events. Sheila Hardy has taken this information to expand our knowledge of life for a mid-Victorian middle class woman.