My Life As A Wife (Elizabeth Luard), Title Deeds (Liza Campbell) and The Floating Brothel - Anyone read them?

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I'm looking for a book for my mother-in-law. She's really enjoyed the Social History/Women's Issues books like My Life As A Wife. Any suggestions?

Many thanks in advance

I read the Floating Brothel - it was really fascinating.

Another book that's fictional but similar is Scatterheart by Lili Wilkinson - it's a teenage book, but it covers transportation of women and their experiences on the ships.

I preferred the Flaoting Brothel because it was completely facutal, but it was very heavy in places.
I would definitely recommend it, as long as she wants proper history book and not light-hearted reading.

My MIL is similar. She enjoyed 'Bluestockings', 'Can Any Mother Help Me?' and loved the Elisabeth Luard books.

This year I have bought her 'Stranger in the House', about husbands returning from WW2, and 'A Very Great Profession', about the history of the women's novel.

I've done A Stranger in the House, she loved it!

The transportation story sounds good, I might need to read that first.

MiL is a marriage guidance counsellor and is fascinated by emotional relationships and personal stories. She's not into trauma (no misery lit) but very into a 'Phillipa Gregory' female history angle.

I liked the Floating Brothel - very interesting.

I recently read the "Mary Tudor: England's First Queen" by Anna Whitelock which I realise is left field of the genre you're for but was absolutely fascinating and I did come away feeling that while as flawed as the next person she may not have been the complete monster that history serves us.

One book I enjoyed was Crooked Pieces by Sarah Grazebrook - not quite as historical, but a fictional account of the Suffragettes.
The main character is Maggie, who ended up being an admin assistant for the Pankhursts.

It's ever such a lovely story, but with a lot of the suffering of the women in it too - lovely but traumatic!

Fully recommend it.

Another vote here for the Floating Brothel; fascinating stuff.

I enjoyed 'The Floating Brothel'.Also read a book years ago about a 19th century feminist called Flora Tristram,that was very interesting too-was published by Virago I think.