Round About a Pound a Week. - Couverture souple

Reeves, Maud Pember

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0860680665 ISBN 13 : 9780860680666

Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 1979

Synopsis

From 1909 to 1913, undaunted by the proposition that a 'bi-weekly visit to Lambeth is like a plunge into Hades', the Fabian Women's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families there. In 1913 they published this unique record in Round About a Pound a Week. We learn about family life, births, marriages and deaths; of grinding work carried out on a diet of little more than bread, jam and margarine. We learn how they coped with damp, vermin and bedbugs; how they slept - four to a bed, in banana crates; how they washed, cooked, cleaned, scrimped for furniture and clothes, saved for all too frequent burials...This classic text is one of the most important and vivid historical portraits of the daily life of working people in the early part of the twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Magdalen Stuart (Maud Pember Reeves), a new Zealander, came to London in 1896. She was a social reformer and feminist. She was appointed Director of the Educational and Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Food in the First World War. She had three children and died in 1953.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860680665
• ISBN 13: 9780860680666
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible