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The discovery, that a significant number of guesthouses in the seaside resort of Morecambe were female run throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, led to this story written from the imagined perspective of “Annie”, a landlady of a guest house circa 1850. Driven to migrate across country, east to west, from Yorkshire to the respite and shelter provided by Morecambe Bay, she was part of a collective experience of migration that populated the northern seaside resort. Inspired by oral histories collected in Morecambe, this story acknowledges that seaside resorts offered women an alternative to an extremely arduous life working in factories at the height of industrialisation. It afforded the possibility of an independent income and lifestyle; in other words, escape.
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Legaspi, S. (2020). Map of the Quick. In: Carruthers, J., Dakkak, N. (eds) Sandscapes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44780-9_10
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