Round About a Pound a Week: 7 (Virago Reprint Library) - Softcover

Reeves, Maud Pember

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860680665 ISBN 13: 9780860680666

Verlag: Virago Press Ltd, 1979

Inhaltsangabe

RO60068294. ROUND ABOUT A POUND A WEEK. 1979. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 231 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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Críticas:

This book might have been joyless but isn't ... a classic study (Penelope Fitzgerald )

Classic, graphic account of the needy before the first world war (DAILY EXPRESS )

Fascinating ... I shall think of this book next time I'm stuck in a tesco checkout queue (DAILY MAIL )

As engrossing and necessary a read now as it was then. (SCOTSMAN )

Reseña del editor:

From 1909 to 1913, undaunted by the proposition that a 'bi-weekly visit to Lambeth is like a plunge into Hades', the Fabian Women's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families there. In 1913 they published this unique record in Round About a Pound a Week.

We learn about family life, births, marriages and deaths; of grinding work carried out on a diet of little more than bread, jam and margarine. We learn how they coped with damp, vermin and bedbugs; how they slept - four to a bed, in banana crates; how they washed, cooked, cleaned, scrimped for furniture and clothes, saved for all too frequent burials...

This classic text is one of the most important and vivid historical portraits of the daily life of working people in the early part of the twentieth century.

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• Verlag: Virago Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0860680665
• ISBN 13: 9780860680666
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256