women in politics and history - a new biography

[Chris]

A new biography in social history and women's studies.

  "Jeanie, an army of one: Mrs Nassau Senior, 
1828 - 1877 - The first woman in Whitehall"
by Sybil Oldfield.

"The rediscovery of a Victorian heroine - 'the 
missing link' between Josephine Butler and Octavia Hill"

"A significant addition to Victorian 
socio-cultural history and to women's studies"

"The first full biography of Mrs Nassau Senior 
(1828-1877), tells how an extraordinary woman 
escaped from the constraints of Victorian 
domesticity to become the first woman in 
Whitehall and one of Britain's great social reformers.

Available Dec 2007, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press
www.sussex-academic.co.uk

Direct phone orders +44 (0) 1524 68765

Hardback ISBN 978-1-84519-253-2  £55
Paperback ISBN 978-1-84519-254-9  £17.95

Sybil Oldfield is Research Reader in English at 
the University of Sussex. Her books include;
         "Spinsters of this Parish: F. M. Meyer and Mary Sheepshanks" (1984)
         "Women against the iron fist: 
anti-militarist thinking 1900 - 1989  (1989)
         "A Biographical Dictionary" (2001 & 2007)
         "The old familiar faces; poems on the 
experience of aging" (with Gwenyth Shaw (2007) - a donation is given to
Age Concern with each copy sold)

Please pass on to any colleagues who might be interested
with thanks
Chris



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