> I'm researching for a book to be called Notable Women of Hampshire. In > the next month I will make a web page and upload a list of the women I > propose to include. <SNIP!!> Hi Helen, What a brilliant idea!! I wish I could contribute, but I can't. But this sort of topic is what this list is all about! I shall certainly being checking out the website; make sure you remember to post the URL to the list. Just a thought, and a very awkward one in many respects, but I've often thought that the most interesting "Hampshire" families were the Romani gypsies living in the New Forest until the 1950s, when they were forced into becoming "kerengros" (house dwellers). They were visited and befriended by the likes of the artist Augustus John, and the composer Vaughn Williams, so they must have had something of interest about them. Any chance we might see a passing reference to them in your book? Good luck with your quest! Davy Cannon, Dorchester, Dorset.

Hello Davy and thank you so much for your warm words of encouragement. (Thanks also to the other gentleman whose email got accidentally deleted but who gave me the link to Kate Oram.) I have nothing against Romanies etc but this isn't the right book for them, as it is about women who left the domestic sphere and did something 'notable', unusual for a woman, perhaps pioneering, for which she was well-known outside of her county. It is for novelists, scientists, world-class sportswomen, founders, philanthropists, politicians, famous actresses etc. If a Romany woman is amongst them of course she will be included. In a previous book (Women of Victorian Sussex) I researched and wrote about the lives of the 'anonymous' women - domestic servants, housewives, women running small businesses, hawkers, thieves, pub landladies, beggars, prostitutes and fortune tellers; in other words the working classes and the 'underclasses'. Now I have turned my attention to their more fortunate sisters, who were educated and given more opportunities, and made good use of them. My next book is Notable Women of Sussex (I have 458 of them), that will be published this year, then I start on Hampshire, so I'm getting my research together nice and early. I'm going to make the webpage for Hampshire soon. Perhaps today... Helena You can find out more about my Sussex books here: http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/vol3.html http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/sussexwomen.html Davy Cannon wrote: > Hi Helen, > But this sort of topic is what this > list is all about! Any chance we might > see a passing reference to them in your book?

Helen There already is a webpage for Hampshire which I started over 6 years ago as the villages of the county were not featured on the net. I have also got Dorset and the Isle of Wight and have got West Sussex, Surry, Berkshire, and Wiltshire which are temorarily off line due to being completely rewritten. http://Southernlife.org.uk I hasten to add that this is not a commercial website but a hobby. Let me have the URL to your website and I can add it to my website on Hampshire and its villages, you will find a few local celebreties listed on their as well. Florence Nightingale for one. http://www.southernlife.org.uk/florence_nightingale.htm Another is Alice Taylor The daughter of a Romsey Doctor, now immortalised in Romsey Abbey, http://www.southernlife.org.uk/romsey3.htm Hope you can add my website to your links as well Chris SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://Southernlife.org.uk History of the Hampshire, Dorset and IOW Villages,Towns and Churches ----- Original Message ----- From: "hastings press" <hastings.press@virgin.net> To: <hampshire-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [HAMPSHIRE-LIFE] Notable Women of Hampshire Hello Davy and thank you so much for your warm words of encouragement. (Thanks also to the other gentleman whose email got accidentally deleted but who gave me the link to Kate Oram.) I have nothing against Romanies etc but this isn't the right book for them, as it is about women who left the domestic sphere and did something 'notable', unusual for a woman, perhaps pioneering, for which she was well-known outside of her county. It is for novelists, scientists, world-class sportswomen, founders, philanthropists, politicians, famous actresses etc. If a Romany woman is amongst them of course she will be included. In a previous book (Women of Victorian Sussex) I researched and wrote about the lives of the 'anonymous' women - domestic servants, housewives, women running small businesses, hawkers, thieves, pub landladies, beggars, prostitutes and fortune tellers; in other words the working classes and the 'underclasses'. Now I have turned my attention to their more fortunate sisters, who were educated and given more opportunities, and made good use of them. My next book is Notable Women of Sussex (I have 458 of them), that will be published this year, then I start on Hampshire, so I'm getting my research together nice and early. I'm going to make the webpage for Hampshire soon. Perhaps today... Helena You can find out more about my Sussex books here: http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/vol3.html http://www.hastingspress.co.uk/sussexwomen.html Davy Cannon wrote: > Hi Helen, > But this sort of topic is what this > list is all about! Any chance we might > see a passing reference to them in your book? *************************************** When replying to this message, please spare a thought for your fellow list members, and anyone searching the archives in the future. SNIP everything which is not essential for comprehension or continuity (including the footers which will be put back anyway!) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Helen Let me have the URL to your website and I can add it to my website on Hampshire and its villages, you will find a few local celebreties listed on their as well. Florence Nightingale for one. http://www.southernlife.org.uk/florence_nightingale.htm Another is Alice Taylor The daughter of a Romsey Doctor, now immortalised in Romsey Abbey, http://www.southernlife.org.uk/romsey3.htm Hope you can add my website to your links as well Chris SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://Southernlife.org.uk History of the Hampshire, Dorset and IOW Villages,Towns and Churches Subject: Re: [HAMPSHIRE-LIFE] Notable Women of Hampshire I'm researching for a book to be called Notable Women of Hampshire. In the next month I will make a web page and upload a list of the women I propose to include. <SNIP!!>