Fred Copeman, born in a workhouse in 1907, described the conditions there in his book
"Reason in Revolt" published in 1948. Emmeline Pankhurst, in her autobiography
"My Own Story", described her experiences as
a Poor Law Guardian and Margery Corbett Ashby described the work of her mother, Marie Corbett, who was the first woman in Britain to be elected as a Poor Law Guardian, in her book
"Memoirs".
