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Destiny Obscure : Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s, Paperback / softback Book

Destiny Obscure : Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s Paperback / softback

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In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.

The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life.

Besides affording rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for support. Children have seldom had a voice in history: these writers and their experiences take their place as part of the essential fabric of our past.

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