Susan Woolfitt — Idle Women

London, Ernest Benn, Limited, 1947. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce study of the challenges and dangers inexperienced trainee boatwomen faced during the war effort. First edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and mapped endpapers. A celebration of the British countryside and a description of the challenges and dangers inexperienced trainee boatwomen faced during the war effort of the Second World War. Depicting everyday life on "the cut" and the struggles of working in a predominantly male environment. Written by Susan Woolfitt, a British writer who was among the women who operated cargo-carrying narrowboats on the Midlands" canals, striving to match the skills of working boat families. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Small marks to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the fore-edge and the odd small handling mark. Scattered spotting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .