Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s
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In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.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.
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:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0415104017
ISBN13:9780415104012
Release Date:June 1994
Publisher:Routledge
Length:388 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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