The Diary of a Suffolk Farmer’s Wife, 1854–69

The Diary of a Suffolk Farmer’s Wife, 1854–69
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
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Download or read book The Diary of a Suffolk Farmer’s Wife, 1854–69 written by Sheila Hardy and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-01-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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