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Fenwomen: a portrait of women in an English village

Fenwomen: a portrait of women in an English village

Fenwomen: a portrait of women in an English village

15/01/2018 by Mary.Chamberlain

The first book to be published by Virago, Fenwomen is a vivid social and oral history of an isolated village in the Cambridgeshire fens. First published in 1975, it is now a classic in the field. It has gone through three editions, with a fourth 50th anniversary celebratory edition to be published by Virago in 2025 as a Virago Modern Classic.

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