Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s (2)

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Synopsis
In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.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.
Copyright:
1994

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
388 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781136151408
Related ISBNs:
9781315003795, 9780415104012, 9781138172784
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Routledge
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction
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Bookshare Staff
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