A Measured Life: The Times and Places of an Orphaned Intellectual

Richard Hoggart's book, The Uses of Literacy, established his reputation as a uniquely sensitive and observant chronicler of English working-class life. This large volume vividly depicts his origins in that setting. It is an autobiographical account combining Hoggart's three masterful works, A Local Habitation, A Sort of Clowning, and An Imagined Life, in which he details his life from 1918 to the present. The first part of the trilogy (1918-1940) describes Hoggart at an early age, recreati...