The Diary of a Suffolk Farmer's Wife, 1854-69: A Woman of Her Time

by Jo Campling (Editor), Ronald Blythe (Foreword), Sheila M Hardy (Author)

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  1992

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  Brought up amid the lively coaching business, Elizabeth Cotton became the wife of a Suffolk tenant farmer twenty years her senior. The diaries she kept between 1854-1869 give accounts of her everyday activities, a busy social life, which included holiday travel around the country and to France, as well as a wide range of current fashions and events. Sheila Hardy has taken this information to expand our knowledge of life for a mid-Victorian middle class woman.