THE 19th CENTURY
HASTINGS PEOPLE
Notable women
Barbara Bodichon
Sophia Jex Blake
Speech by Sophia Jex Blake
Marianne North
Marianne North in the Census
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Countess Waldegrave
LIFE
Overview of women's status
The legal status of women
Charity work
Pregnancy
Infanticide
A coroner's report
Felonies
Court reports
Education
The position of women in 1850
CLASS ISSUES
Social classes
Living conditions of each class
Life in Market Passage
Upper class women
Women of the Lawn and the Uplands
Lower class women
The underclass
Prostitution
WOMEN IN WORK AND IN TRADES
'Upper' working class women
Washerwomen
Seamstresses
Domestic servants
School teachers
Women traders
Publicans
Hoteliers
Lodging house keepers
Adverts from tradeswomen
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THE 20th CENTURY
HASTINGS SUFFRAGETTES
Hastings suffrage home page
Public displays
Militant speech
Anti suffragette riot
Tax Resistance League 1
Tax Resistance League 2
Arson at Levetleigh
Elsie Bowerman
Mary "Slasher" Richardson
Mary Allen (police)
Muriel Matters
THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT
Suffragette images
NUWSS
WSPU
MISCELLANY
Bloomers
Emigration of spinsters
Women in the later 19th century
Press Cuttings from Thanet, 1906-9
Press Cuttings from Thanet, 1910-14
Women's Occupations in 1911
HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS
Old Town 1850s map
St Leonards 1873 map
Hastings 1859 map
Miscellany: St Leonards
Miscellany: Hastings
Links
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