This four-volume study analyses and interprets what an unusual eighteenth-century female diarist has to tell us about rapid change and the response to new social and economic forces. Mary Hardy sheds light on industrial, commercial and working life in the East Anglian countryside. Actively engaged in the family business of farming and brewing, she describes the dynamic world of her time with a precision which the majority of literary sources cannot match. Each volume, designed for both the general reader and the specialist, stands on its own and explores a series of linked themes. Each has meticulous sidenotes, a bibliography and an extensive index. The full set of four volumes is offered at a reduced price.
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Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
Publication Date: 23 Apr 2020
Publisher: Burnham Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781916206755
About Margaret Bird
Margaret Bird is the editor of the complete text of The Diary of Mary Hardy 1773-1809 published in 2013. An honorary research fellow in the History department of Royal Holloway University of London 2006-21 she was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2016. She was born in central London in 1946 read Modern History at St Anne's College Oxford and gained her master's degree in Modern History at Royal Holloway. For both degrees she specialised in aspects of English history in the eighteenth century. She has lived in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey since 1970 and was a partner with her husband Tony in the economic consultancy they founded and ran for 22 years. She has a deep love of the landscape and waterways of the Norfolk Broads in eastern England where Mary Hardy wrote her diary.