Out of the Shadows

<p><strong>In this collection of essays Naomi Clifford explores the lives of women whose stories we have forgotten or have never known.</strong></p><p>Meet Eliza Fenning a servant whose ability to read proved fatal; teenager Maria Glenn dragged through the courts by a vengeful would-be suitor; Susanna Meredith who devoted herself to improving the lives of convicted women; Margaret Larney pregnant and condemned to death; Mary Ashford whose woeful end was staged on the opening night of a famous theatre; and French anarchist Louise Michel welcomed to the consternation of the great and the good on a fact-finding visit to a London workhouse.</p>