Bal Maidens , Women and Girls of the Cornwall and Devon Mines (3rd edition)
Price: £27.50
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The author, Lynne Mayers has carefully researched the working and home lives of the women and girls who carried out the hard but skilled work in the mines and quarries of Cornwall and Devon. This is the record of a remarkable group of women, plus some individual accounts of the few whose stories have survived.
pages - 342
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