Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920

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Notes to pages 15–21 163


1 Ebbatson, ‘Women in the Field’



  1. F. Engels, Th e Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (London: Panther
    Books, 1969), p. 286.

  2. Ibid., p. 287.

  3. Ibid., pp. 287, 288.

  4. K. Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867), trans. B. Fowkes, 2 vols (Har-
    mondsworth: Penguin, 1976), vol. 1, p. 889.

  5. T. Hardy, ‘We Field-Women’ (1928), in Th e Complete Poems, ed. J. Gibson (London:
    Macmillan, 1976), p. 881.

  6. K. Sayer, Women of the Fields: Representations of Rural Women in the Nineteenth Century
    (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995), p. 126.

  7. Ibid., p. 125.

  8. Ibid., p. 128.

  9. Ibid., p. 129.

  10. A. Armstrong , Farmworkers: A Social and Economic History, 1770–1980 (London: Bats-
    ford, 1988), p. 123.

  11. R. Jeff eries, Landscape and Labour, ed. J. Pearson (Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press,
    1979), p. 168.

  12. Ibid., p. 170.

  13. Ibid., p. 171.

  14. Ibid., p. 171.

  15. R. Jeff eries, Th e Toilers of the Field (1892) (London: MacDonald Futura, 1981), p. 88.

  16. Ibid., p. 94.

  17. R. Jeff eries, Hodge and His Masters (1880), ed. H. Williamson (London: Methuen,
    1937), p. 24.

  18. Ibid., p. 25.

  19. R. Jeff eries, Th e Open Air (London: Dent, [n.d.]), p. 106.

  20. R. Jeff eries, Th e Life of the Fields (London: Chatto & Windus, 1908), p. 23.

  21. Ibid., p. 25.

  22. Ibid., p. 26.

  23. Ibid., p. 28.

  24. Ibid., p. 28.

  25. Ibid., p. 29.

  26. Ibid., p. 29.

  27. Ibid., p. 30.

  28. Ibid., p. 40.

  29. Ibid., p. 42.

  30. Ibid., p. 103.

  31. T. Hardy, ‘Th e Dorsetshire Labourer’, in H. Orel (ed.), Hardy: Personal Writings (Lon-
    don: Macmillan, 1967), pp. 168–91, on p. 181.

  32. Ibid., p. 187.

  33. Ibid.

  34. T. Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), ed. S. Gatrell and J. Grindle (Oxford: Oxford
    University Press, 1988), p. 315.

  35. Ibid., pp. 315–16.

  36. K. D. M. Snell, Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England,
    1660–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 378.

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