Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s / Edition 2

by Proffessor John Burnett, John Burnett

Overview

In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415104012
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/1994
Series:	Modern British History Series , #2
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Burnett

Table of Contents

1. Childhood 2. Education 3. Home and Family

Editorial Reviews

[of Destiny Obscure and Useful Toil] ‘They are handy and accessible collections of extracts from a particular group pf primary sources...' - Times Literary Supplement

‘Both provide a wealth of primary source material for historians of all ages; both are wonderful incentives to contemporary autobiographical writing.' - Times Educational Supplement

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