Struggle and Suffrage in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

by Craig Armstrong

For much of the nineteenth century, the women of Newcastle had occupied crucial, though largely underappreciated and acknowledged, roles within society. Aside from the hard life of raising families in an area where money was often hard to come by, and where much of the available work was labor intensive and dangerous, women were also expected to play a role in bringing money into the household.

The use of female labor in Newcastle was often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152671969X
• ISBN13: 9781526719690
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 176 Pages