Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s

by Burnett, Proffessor John
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ISBN: 9780415104012
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In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Burnett, Proffessor John
  • ISBN: 9780415104012
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.50 x 0.86
  • Number Of Pages: 388
  • Publication Year: 1994

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