Four Meals For Fourpence: A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End

Description

Product ID:	9781844087273
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Four Meals For Fourpence
Subtitle:	A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End
Authors:	Author: Grace Foakes
Page Count:	288
Subjects:	Biography: general, Biography: general
Description:	Select Guide Rating * A heartwarming memoir of working-class life in the East End in the early 1900s I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.'' FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes''s memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child''s uncluttered eye, she describes the small details - shopping in the market, men waiting for work at the dock gates, the rituals of washday, the sights, sounds and smells of the old East End of London. She also describes the fear - of illness, of unemployment, of the workhouse - that hung over her family and thousands like them, and her determination that her own children would never know the kind of poverty she had experienced.
Imprint Name:	Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Name:	Little, Brown Book Group
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2011-05-12

Weight	232 g
Dimensions	196 × 126 × 19 mm