Land Of My Mothers

On December 31st 1857, Dorothy Price was charged with assaulting Jane Fitzgerald of Garndiffaith in a dispute over an oven. The oven was used by numerous people in the neighbourhood, communal ovens were the norm, but the question was on this occasion who had priority of use..... Tough, resilient, hard working, feisty, creative and talented. Often facing the most terrible hardships. With no rights, crippling poverty and only one oven to each row of houses. This book takes a look at the lives of ordinary women in Victorian Wales. This is the land of my mothers .....

• | Author: Carol Ann Lewis
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 29, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 92 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1518695396
• | ISBN-13: 9781518695391