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

Llewelyn Davies, Margaret

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0860680002 ISBN 13: 9780860680000

Casa editrice: Virago, 1977

Riassunto

'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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Reissued with a stunning new jacket design, the Virago classic about working class life at the turn of the last century

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0860680002
• ISBN 13: 9780860680000
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 142