Marion Aldis Libri

Explores the rag trade of the nineteenth century.

Focusing on the achievements of nine remarkable women from Norfolk, this collection highlights their successes in the male-dominated 19th century. Each chapter offers a biography that showcases their resilience and determination, providing insight into a time when women's roles in business were largely unrecognized. Additionally, the book serves as a resource for family researchers, encouraging them to explore their own ancestry through diligent research methods, including census records and directories.

What do you think of when you hear the phrase ‘nineteenth-century schooling’ The bullies of Tom Brown’s Schooldays The cane-wielding headmaster of Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickleby Or Latin lessons, writing slates, learning-by-rote and the smell of ink In this lively and engrossing book (with 95 black and white illustrations), Marion Aldis and Pam Inder separate the truth from the fiction by examining the diaries, letters and drawings of children and teachers from schools across the United Kingdom. The result is a vivid picture of what it was really like to be at school in the nineteenth century. Among the characters in this book are Ralphy, hopelessly unteachable but an avid collector of ‘curiosities’; Miss Paraman, sadistic teacher in a Dame School; Ann, who became a bluestocking in spite of chaotic home-schooling; Gerald, who spent too much time at Harrow School on cricket and socialising; the Quaker school where both girls and boys studied algebra, chemistry and shorthand; Sarah Jane, enrolled in a lace school at the age of six; and the National Schools where children were absent during the harvest.

Pam Inder explores the evolution of the woman's fashion over the long nineteenth century - from the late Georgians to the Edwardians.