“Each woman's story, Edith's especially but Rose's too, is a kind of English story told over and over in fiction and film but rarely in works of history; the tragicomedy of someone who could not perform the ordinariness expected of them.” OrdinarinessTragicomedyLibels Book:The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England Source: The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England