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Destiny Obscure - Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Destiny Obscure - Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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In this companion volume to "Useful Toil", John Burnett has drawn
extensively on over 800 previously unpublished manuscripts. The
result is a record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the
trials and hard-won triumphs of 19-century working-class life.
Besides offering 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: individual to the last, these
writers and their experiences take their place as part of the
essential fabric of our past. Burnett has also plublished "Plenty
and Want: A Social History of Diet in England From 1815 to the
Present" (Routledge); "A History of the Cost of Living (1969); "The
Challenge of the Nineteenth Century" (1970); "Useful Toil" (1974);
"Destiny Obscure" (1982); and "Idle Hands: The Experience of
Unemployment, 1790-1990" (Routledge).
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