Life As We Have Known It

The Voices of Working-Class Women

By:

Margaret Llewelyn Davies

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Virago Modern Classics

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'I was born in Bethnal Green...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me... When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.' Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working class women, LIFE AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT is a remarkable first-hand account of working lives at the turn of the last century. First published in association with the Women's Co-operative Guild in 1931, LIFE AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT is a unique evocation of a lost age and a humbling testament to what Virginia Woolf called 'that inborn energy which no amount of childbirth and washing up can quench'. Here is domestic service; toiling in factories and in the fields and of husbands - often old and ill before their time, some drinkers or gamblers. Despite telling of the hardship of a poverty-stricken marriage, the horrors of childbirth and of lives spent in search of jobs, these are spirited and inspiring voices.

Author Biography:

Life As We Have Known It includes voices from many working class women. It was edited by Margaret Llewelyn Davies, General Secretary of the Women's Co-operative Guild from 1889-1921.

Release date Australia

July 5th, 2012

Author

Margaret Llewelyn Davies

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

208

Series

Virago Modern Classics

Dimensions

123x196x13

ISBN-13

9781844088010

Product ID

19642813

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