Life As We Have Known It : The Voices of Working-Class Women Paperback / softback
by Margaret Llewelyn Davies
Part of the Virago Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:05/07/2012
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- ISBN:9781844088010
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:05/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844088010
