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1. By the Sweat of Their Brow

   Women workers at Victorian Coal Mines

   By Angela V. John

   Series: Economic History

   The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women’s work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain,...

   Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
2. The Men's Share?

   Masculinities, Male Support and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1890-1920

   Edited by Claire Eustance, Prof Angela V John, Angela V. John

   The opposition of men to women's suffrage is well-known. However, men's support for women's suffrage is a neglected subject. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, over one thousand men were prepared to join societies and actively work for women's suffrage, whilst many other men...

   Published April 30th 1997 by Routledge
3. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life

   1862-1952

   By Prof Angela V John, Angela V. John

   A woman of extraordinary energy, talent and versatility. Elizabeth Robins was an actress who popularised Ibsen on the British stage, a prolific and popular writer of novels and non-fiction, and an Edwardian suffragette. Her extensive circle of friends included Florence Bell, Henry James, John...

   Published March 8th 1995 by Routledge