Slime, sleaze and scandal, blood, battery and a hint of buggery, are buried in Brighton's history, and Douglas d'Enno's handsome new book will please discerning readers who relish a dash of gore with their daily slice of print. This is a new book that takes a fresh look at past lives that ended in gruesome deaths; dipping into the bloody villainies and poisonous passions, which shocked and terrified Brighton's population during Victoria's reign and the century that followed. Abortion, adultery, forgery, prostitution, rape and robbery, to name but a few leap out across the years. Cleverly using an A - Z format d'Enno however harrowingly guides the reader not only backwards through time, but forwards as well, spotlighting and contrasting again and again crimes from more modern days, equally savage and no less dreadful for being more recent. Vicious child neglect, careless and brutal murder, rampant drug abuse, savagely mindless violence, heartless thievery, and festering police corruption are still with us. Douglas d'Enno wants us to realise that times, it would seem, have not changed very much.

Pub: Wharnecliffe Books 2008

"WOMEN'S HOSPITALS IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE"

The Lady Chichester and The New Sussex Hospitals

1899 - 1920s

a book by the author of this website

"In 1898 two young women doctors arrived in Hove and nervously set up in general practice. Twenty eventful years later Brighton & Hove had two Women's hospitals ……… this book is a unique blend of social and local history set against a vivid backdrop of Edwardian Brighton, World War I, and the struggle for women to forge a place in public life....."

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A Walk across Brighton

Brighton, along with its neighbour Hove, is a seaside town on the South Coast of the UK some 40 miles South of London. The author of all this website "Women of Brighton" is val brown who identifies herself as the holder of the copywright of the contents unless otherwise stated. General Sources and Appreciations are given below; individual souces and appreciations are quoted separately. All photographs of modern Brighton and Hove were taken by val; other photographs or artists are credited where the photographer or artist is known.

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Sources and Appreciations:

"Brighton" by Eric Underwood

"The Old Ship, A Prospect Of Brighton" by Raymond Flower

"The Penguin Biographical Dictionary of Women"

Brighton & Hove Library, Brighton and Hove Local History Library.

"Spartacus"

Brighton and Hove Gazette

"Life in Brighton" by Clifford Musgrave

"The Theatre Royal Brighton" by Anthony Dale

Brighton" by Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton

The World Wide Web and its countless contributors

Appreciative Thanks to:

Prof. Linda Hunt Beckman (Ohio University,) Dr Gerry Holloway (University of Sussex,) Brighton Ourstory Project and Andrew Le Flohic, Helena Wojtczak from Hastings, Sarah Tobias, Helen Bekhor, Dr Louise Westwood, Professor Antoinette Burton University of Illinois, and all those supportive friends !

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