by Ruth A. Symes [After a family visit this summer to Gawthorpe Hall, home of Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth featured here, I was reminded of my article published in Who Do You Think you Are? Magazine (2013)] Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Woman Sewing By Window (1871), by Vincent Van... Continue Reading →
The Governess: An Anthology
Ruth A. Symes and Trev Broughton (eds), The Governess: An Anthology, Sutton Press, 1997. Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update
A Century of Female Revolution: From Peterloo to Parliament, by Glynnis Cooper, (Pen and Sword Books, 2020).
Review by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update [This review first appeared in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine UK] On August 16th 1819, some of the marchers at the renowned political demonstration in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, were wearing the long straight Empire-line dresses fashionable... Continue Reading →