Ian Haywood
Ashgate
Hardback
232
2001
When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850 he was determined to capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic often harrowing account of the social economic and emotional victimisation of women and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities.
Ashgate
Hardback
232
2001
When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850 he was determined to capture the public's attention with a controversial and topical novel. The result of his endeavours was the remarkable Woman's Wrongs a series of five tales exploring women's oppression at every level of society from the working class to the aristocracy. Each story presents a graphic often harrowing account of the social economic and emotional victimisation of women and taken together the tales comprise a devastating indictment of Victorian patriarchal attitudes and sexual inequalities.