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Life As We Have Known It

- The Voices of Working-Class Women

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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 208 sider

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'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.' Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working class women, Life as We Have Known It is a remarkable first-hand account of working lives at the turn of the last century. First published in association with the Women's Co-operative Guild in 1931, Life as We Have Known it is a unique evocation of a lost age, and a humbling testament to what Virginia Woolf called 'that inborn energy which no amount of childbirth and washing up can quench'. Here is domestic service; toiling in factories and in the fields, and of husbands - often old and ill before their time, some drinkers or gamblers. Despite telling of the hardship of a poverty-stricken marriage, the horrors of childbirth and of lives spent in search of jobs, these are spirited and inspiring voices.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal208
  • Udgivelsesdato05-07-2012
  • ISBN139781844088010
  • Forlag Virago Press Ltd
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt144 g
  • Dybde1,3 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    12,3 cm
    19,6 cm

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