Women of West Cornwall

Women of West Cornwall

This book of stories of women of West Cornwall is the tenth title published by Penwith Local History Group since it started in 1990.

Some chapters are overviews: the treatment of women in wills in Zennor in 1600-1750; the experiences of slandered women who resorted to the Church Courts in 1700-1850; women’s employment in Penzance town centre in 1830-1906; and the everyday story of women and washing. Other chapters have a narrower focus: women who joined Ludgvan’s Female Friendly Society; the inevitability of life for women in farming and fishing families in nineteenth century Penwith; the Suffragist ‘pilgrimage’ from Land’s End to London in 1913; the women who cared for some Jewish children evacuated from London’s East End to Mousehole in 1940; the miner’s wife who had once modelled for the Newlyn Artists but was left destitute in Newlyn to bring up four young children when her husband died in South Africa; another miner’s wife who was widowed in Idaho but was able to return to St Hilary with her children; or more recently the bitter controversy over Penzances’s rival carnival queens in 1933.

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