New Book Coming Soon: Victorian Domestic Abuse

Continuing with my series of Victorian books, my next subject is that of Victorian domestic abuse.  It takes a look at just some of the terrible and inhumane conditions and treatments women were suffering.  A woman in Victorian Britain had no rights whatsoever, to her money, to property, to her children or her own body. Women were the property of their husbands. Wife beating was widespread and wifely chastisement acceptable in law.

Here's  just one example.  In 1848 an Inspector of the Poor entered a house.  He found a woman imprisoned in a tiny water closet.  She had been there for four months, she was covered in dirt, her hair matted, vermin all around and she had been in a crouching position for so long she couldn't straighten up.  Her husband said she was in there for being disorderly.  She later died.

This story is just the tip of the iceberg.  For every one included in the book there were many more.

Victorian Domestic Abuse will be available very soon.