With an introductory letter by Virginia Woolf, first-hand
records of working class women's experiences in early 20th-century
England, from jobs to families to political awakenings
""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, this collection is a remarkable firsthand account of working
lives at the turn of the last century. First published in
association with the Women's Co-operative Guild in 1931, 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.
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