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Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950 - Votes, Voices and Vocations (Hardcover)
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Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950 - Votes, Voices and Vocations (Hardcover)
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Highly Commended for the W.G. Hoskins Prize in the Devon History
Society Book of the Year awards. This book is one of the first to
study the regional role of women in public and professional life,
breaking new ground in early twentieth-century local and gender
history. Covering politics (Eleanor Acland and Clara Daymond),
medicine and education (Dr Mabel Ramsay and Jessie Headridge), and
a variety of voluntary organizations (Florence Cecil, Georgiana
Buller, Jane Clinton and Sylvia Calmady-Hamlyn), it shows how women
worked individually and in collaboration to create new
opportunities for women and girls in a large, mainly rural, county
far from London and the industrial heartlands of England. These
biographical studies are based on original research and reveal the
huge public contribution made by these eight women, who up to now
have been largely hidden from history. Devon Women in Public and
Professional Life, 1900-1950 is a contribution to the history of
women in Britain between the wars, a period that has received less
attention than the Edwardian era and the two World Wars. It also
fills a major gap in the history of Devon women, on which almost
nothing has been published, and on Devon in the inter-war period,
similarly neglected by historians. It will be of interest to
academics and students in the fields of gender history and the
history of modern Britain, as well as everyone interested in the
history of twentieth-century Devon.
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