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

ISBN-13: 9781138172784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 388 str.

Proffessor John Burnett; John Burnett

Opis

In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.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

Recenzje

[of Destiny Obscure and Useful Toil] `They are handy and accessible collections of extracts from a particular group pf primary sources...' - Times Literary Supplement

`Both provide a wealth of primary source material for historians of all ages; both are wonderful incentives to contemporary autobiographical writing.' - Times Educational Supplement

Spis treści

Part I Childhood; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Joseph Terry; Chapter 3 George Mockford; Chapter 4 William Webb; Chapter 5 Alfred Ireson; Chapter 6 Faith Dorothy Osgerby; Chapter 7 Jack Lanigan; Chapter 8 Alice Foley; Chapter 9 Stella Entwistle; Chapter 10 Edna Bold; Chapter 11 Edith Hall; Chapter 12 Bim Andrews; Part II Education; Chapter 13 Introduction; Chapter 14 James Bonwick; Chapter 15 Frederick Hobley; Chapter 16 Robert Roberts; Chapter 17 John Shinn; Chapter 18 Charles Cooper; Chapter 19 Daisy Cowper; Chapter 20 Kathleen Betterton; Part III Home and Family; Chapter 21 Introduction; Chapter 22 John Castle; Chapter 23 Laura Green-Price; Chapter 24 Nora Mabel Nye; Chapter 25 Albert Goodwin; Chapter 26 Kate Taylor; Chapter 27 Fred Boughton; Chapter 28 James Brady; Chapter 29 Bessie Wallis; Chapter 30 Syd Foley; Chapter 31 Margaret Perry;

O autorze

John Burnett