| Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s Contributor(s): Burnett, Proffessor John (Author), Burnett, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138172782 ISBN-13: 9781138172784 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.230 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.31 lbs) 388 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.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. |