Women of the Fields: Representations of Rural Women in the Nineteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 0719041422
- ISBN-13
- 9780719041426
- Category
- Women in agriculture
- Pages
- 201
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Karen Sayer
Description
Item "describes the work that women did in agriculture, as seen in the parliamentary reports of 1843, 1967 [sic., 1867] and the 1890s, and the meanings given to that work in the local and national press, farming advice books, autobiographies and the art and literature of the period" -- back cover.
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