In the early twentieth century, women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household 'drudgery' meant employing another woman to do it, where did this leave domestic servants? Both inspired and frustrated by the growing feminist movement, servants began forming their own trade unions, demanding better conditions and rights at work. Feminism and the Servant Problem is the first ever history of how these militant maids and their mistresses joined forces in the struggle for the vote but also clashed over competing class interests. Laura Schwartz uncovers a forgotten history of domestic worker organising and early feminist thinking on reproductive labour, and offers a new perspective on the class politics of the suffrage movement, challenging traditional notions of who made up the British working-class.

In the early twentieth century, women fought for the right to professional employment and political influence outside the home. Yet if liberation from household 'drudgery' meant employing another woman to do it, where did this leave domestic servants? Both inspired and frustrated by the growing feminist movement, servants began forming their own trade unions, demanding better conditions and rights at work. Feminism and the Servant Problem is the first ever history of how these militant maids and their mistresses joined forces in the struggle for the vote but also clashed over competing class interests. Laura Schwartz uncovers a forgotten history of domestic worker organising and early feminist thinking on reproductive labour, and offers a new perspective on the class politics of the suffrage movement, challenging traditional notions of who made up the British working-class.

Willamena Webbs was born almost seven years ago, on a cool, crisp night on the last day in October. Her parents were so proud of their one and only daughter. She was everything they expected her to be. Well, almost. On that memorable night, Willamena's parents and her grandmother held her up to their ears to hear something very strange coming from her chest. It was a soft noise but alarmed them all the same. "It can not be," her mother Velma whispered. "It is some sort of farce for sure " her father William said. "What? You need a scarf?" Grandma yelled (she was little hard of hearing.) But it was no farce...or a scarf. For on that fateful night, their small daughter Willamena was born with something her family was quite unfamiliar with. A small, but fluttering heart beat. Join the fantastic world of Willamena. Funny and endearing, this seven year old girl lives in a crypt with her very, very different family who are simply "dying" to meet you.