Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women

di Margaret Llewelyn Davies (Autore)

Little, Brown Book Group, 2012

'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.

• Autore: Margaret Llewelyn Davies
• Editore: Little, Brown Book Group
• Collana: Virago Modern Classics
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 208 p.
• Dimensioni: 196 x 123 mm
• Peso: 144 gr.
• EAN: 9781844088010

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