Struggle and Suffrage in Watford: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

A study of the many changes in women's lives in an English town over the course of a century.
This book shines a light on women's lives in and around the English town of Watford, in the home and at work, in traditional rural employment or in dressmaking, textiles, and the silk industry. The lives of local women are put into the context of the national movement to address inequality and injustice, highlighting the often difficult existences of those employed in domestic service; the impact o...