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Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women (Virago Modern Classics) Paperback - 2012
by Davies, Margaret Llewelyn
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- Title Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women (Virago Modern Classics)
- Author Davies, Margaret Llewelyn
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Virago Press (UK)
- Date 2012
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1844088014.G
- ISBN 9781844088010 / 1844088014
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 4.9 x 0.6 in (19.30 x 12.45 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012455044
- Dewey Decimal Code 942.081
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From the rear cover
'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. With an Introductory Letter by Virginia Woolf