Fenwomen

Originally published in 1975, Fenwomen was the first non—fiction book published by Virago. A vivid social and oral history of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire Fens, it provides a unique portrait, spanning nearly 100 years, via the previously unheard voices of the women who lived there, of a community where there were virtually no professional or middle—class people, where intermarriage was common and a single family owned all the village land. Fenwomen was in a tradition stretching...