Our Mothers' Land

This is a new edition of a book that was originally published in 1991 as the first of its kind, written when women's history in Wales was in its infancy. The chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women's community sanctions And The perils of being a collier's wife To The very different lifestyles of ironmasters' wives.

Angela V. John is an Honorary Professor of History at Aberystwyth University and lives in north Pembrokeshire. She has written extensively on women's and gender history in Wales and England, and is a vice-president of Llafur, the Welsh People's History Society. In recent years, she has produced a number of biographies, the most recent of which was Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955 (2009). She is currently writing her tenth book, a study of Lady Rhondda.