Based on Mary Chamberlain
's Fenwomen: Portrait of Women in an English Village (1975), the drama presents a socialist-feminist critique of farm and domestic labour.
Kritzer, Amelia Howe. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment. Macmillan.
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Timeline
By Autumn 1975: Carmen Callil's new Virago Press issued its...
Women writers item
By Autumn 1975
Carmen Callil
's new Virago Press
issued its first title, Mary Chamberlain
's Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village, an indictment of rural poverty as it bears on women.
Texts
Chamberlain, Mary, editor. Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers. Virago Press, 1988.