Not sure that’s quite the right thread title but not sure how to describe it!
Can anyone recommend any books sort of like Lark Rise to Candleford or Call the Midwife, not necessarily memoirs but first hand accounts of women’s daily lives, at any point in history really?
I’ve read a few that I’ve seen recommended on Mumsnet on a few other threads and they always hit the spot! Recently these include…..
Life As We Have Known it by Margaret Llewelyn Davies
The Life of Martha Ballard - a midwife in the early 1800’s
The Diary of a Farmers Wife 1796-1797
Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
I work in a big old country house and really like listening to audiobooks about servants lives and imagining what would have been going on where I’m working in days gone by! But there’s quite a lot of these sorts of books around so if anyone can recommend any decent ones (whatever that means, it’s subjective isn’t it!) then I’m all ears!
currently reading The Midwife’s Tale by Nicky Leap which is essentially a collection of interviews from women remembering the handywomen who preceded professional midwife’s and I’m finding it so interesting I’d love more of the same!!!
can anyone help with this niche request or suggest anything else similarly interesting?