The price for a media request is £30 and as far as I can gather at least 50 people have posted on this media thread hence £1,500. I felt obliged to do the same because any information gathered may well be included in a book thus making it 'media'. I did not expect any Idle Women to still be alive but hoped that someone might have a treasure in the attic or have an ancestor who was an Idle Woman. Another diary has only recently come to light, and another I W discovered in Tasmania as a result of publicity about this latest diary. It's all rather exciting. The four books written by these brave women are:- Troubled Waters by Margaret Cornish, Maidens' Trip by Emma Smith, Idle Women by Susan Woolfit and The Amateur Boatwomen by Eily Gayford. Merlotgran is quite right, it really was a chance for young women to run their own show and what a splendid job they made of it. Thank you all for your friendly replies, you've quite cheered me up.
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