Author revisits poverty issues for women in Victorian London with life lessons that apply today

PRLog (Press Release) - Mar. 11, 2013 - Women face very distinct obstacles when faced with poverty. Doreen McNicol offers a glimpse of those long ago problems in a Victorian workhouse while offering inspiration and life lessons for today. Workhouses are a thing of the past, but many of today's poor women face women's shelters or the streets when they dip below the poverty line. They must rely on strength and self reliance to persevere much like "The Starlings of Chatham Street" (ASIN B00BH38R36).

Victorian London is a difficult place to survive in the best of times, but when women are faced with crippling poverty there are few options. A young woman who married too soon is left alone at a workhouse with promises from her husband that he will return when he finds a better life. A pregnant woman enters when she has no where else to go, and soon after she loses her baby she tries to offer others aid and comfort. The woman that runs the workhouse is working poor and wonders if she will ever find happiness for she is only one step away from being an inmate.

The book's style will appeal to everyone interested in the triumph of spirit that women possess. Told through Victorian era life lessons of friendship and strength through struggle, these lessons still ring true today. "The Starlings of Chatham Street" (ASIN B00BH38R36) is available on Amazon.

About the Author
Doreen McNicol is an author that loves exploring history and bringing it to life in a way that relates to today's woman. She is the author of "Rachel Wicks" and its sequel "Rachel Blackburn". Doreen currently lives in British Columbia where she squeezes in time for painting and photography while writing and exploring her love for history.

For more information about "The Starlings of Chatham Street" please visit http://www.doreenmcnicol.com/ or contact Ella Marie Shupe at the Belcastro Agency 330 398-0721

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