Life as We Have Known it: The Voices of Working-Class Women
Author(s): Margaret Llewelyn Davies
'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.' Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working class women, Life as We Have Known It is a remarkable first-hand account of working lives at the turn of the last century. First published in association with the Women's Co-operative Guild in 1931, Life as We Have Known it is a unique evocation of a lost age, and a humbling testament to what Virginia Woolf called 'that inborn energy which no amount of childbirth and washing up can quench'. Here is domestic service; toiling in factories and in the fields, and of husbands - often old and ill before their time, some drinkers or gamblers. Despite telling of the hardship of a poverty-stricken marriage, the horrors of childbirth and of lives spent in search of jobs, these are spirited and inspiring voices.
General Information
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : Virago Press Ltd
- : 0.168
- : 01 September 2012
- : 215mm X 127mm X 13mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 September 2012
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Margaret Llewelyn Davies
- : 1
- : 208
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Reissued with a stunning new jacket design, the Virago classic about working class life at the turn of the last century