Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London 1870-1918

ISBN-13: 9780195039573 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 336 str.

Ellen Ross

Opis

The history of the British working class has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions or national political parties. This study of mothers in London before World War I stresses the distinctiveness of their experiences from those of other classes, and of the post World War I period, and demonstrates the ways in which mothers and their domestic choices were essential to the survival and cultural perpetuation of the working classes.

Recenzje

In an insightful and sensitive way, Ellen Ross has drwan together the various strands in this complex history of motherhood and produced a masterpiece which promises to be of long-term importance. Beautifully composed and neatly balanced between poignant passages and funny ones, Ross has composed a book which is easy to read.