Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s (2nd edition)
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Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s (2nd edition)
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s (2nd edition)

Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s (2nd edition)

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Proffessor John Burnett (Author) John Burnett (Author)  

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In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life. Besides affording 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: these writers and their experiences take their place as part of the essential fabric of our past.
John Burnett
  • Contributor: Proffessor John Burnett
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9780415104012
  • Number of Pages: 388
  • Packaged Dimensions: 138x216mm
  • Packaged Weight: 544
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 1994-06-30
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: John Burnett

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