Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 142 pages, b&w illustrations. The life, habits, and fortunes of Victorian working women in Great Britain chronicled by Arthur Munby, a functionary of the Ecclesiastical Commissions in London. Illustrated with drawings by Munby, photographs he commissioned and bought, documents and sketches, Munby has created a vivid portrait of what it was like to belong to the female working class of nineteenth-century England. Munby was interested in the "moral and physical statistics of labouring women all over the world" - women, often no more than your girls, who worked twelve-hour days and earned a meager few pence crucial to the survival of their families.Contains chapters on "Wigan Pit Brow Girls," "South Wales Mine Tip Girls," "Female Gymnasts," "Women Miners In Belgium," etc. Clean copy.
