It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read By the Sweat of Their Brow by Angela V. John
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women’s work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain, cruelly torn from her ‘natural sphere’, the home. The, attempt to restrict women’s work at the mines in the 1880s highlights the dichotomy between the fashionable ideal of womanhood and the necessity and reality of female manual labour. Although only a tiny percentage of the colliery labour force, the...
By the Sweat of Their Brow by Angela V. John is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.
This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read By the Sweat of Their Brow aloud.
By the Sweat of Their Brow is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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