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Author : Mary Vivian Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : London (England)
ISBN : 1903155517
London Child of the 1870s is an autobiography.
Author : Mary Vivian Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0192812165
Author : M. V. Hughes
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789122909
A London Child of the Seventies, which was first published in 1934, is a record of British author Molly Hughes’ memories of life as a child in London during the ‘seventies of the last century.’ In the warmth of her recollection, the image of “Victorianism” as something harsh, restricted and unnatural melts and vanishes. This was a happy life, not because it was luxuriously equipped, but because the spirit of human relationships in a large family was always of the happiest and because imagination learned to build, with the simplest of materials, a wonderland of adventure... “NONE of the characters in this book are fictitious. The incidents, if not dramatic, are at least genuine memories. Expressions of jollity and enjoyment of life are understatements rather than overstatements. We were just an ordinary, suburban, Victorian family, undistinguished ourselves and unacquainted with distinguished people. It occurred to me to record our doings only because, on looking back, and comparing our lot with that of the children of today, we seemed to have been so lucky. In writing them down, however, I have come to realize that luck is at one’s own disposal, that ‘there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so’. Bring up children in the conviction that they are lucky, and behold they are. But in our case high spirits were perhaps inherited, as my story will show. “DON PEDRO. In faith, lady, you have a merry heart. “BEATRICE. Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the windy side of care.”
Author : M. V. Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987217674
Author : Peter Kirby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230802490
What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment? Why did so many poor families put their children to work? How did the state respond to child labour? What problems arise in the interpretation of evidence of child employment? Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 - Offers a broad empirical analysis of how the work of children was integrated with the major economic and occupational changes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain - Argues that working children occupied a unique position within the context of the family, the labour market and the state - Discusses the key issues involved in the study of children's employment In this clear and concise study, Peter Kirby convincingly argues that child labour provided an invaluable contribution to economic growth and the incomes of working-class households. Consequently, the picture that emerges is much more complex than that portrayed in many traditional approaches to the subject.
Author : Mary Vivian Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632309831
The author describes her childhood in the London of the 1870s, schooldays and holidays in Cornwall, her life as a student and her first teaching post. These are followed by travels to Europe and America, her marriage and children.
Author : Ellen Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motherhood
ISBN : 9780195039573
"The feisty warm-hearted "mum" has long figured as a symbol of the working class in Britain, yet working-class history has emphasized male organizations such as clubs, unions, or political parties. Investigating a different dimension of social history, Love and Toil focuses on motherhood among the London poor in the late Victorian and Edwardian years, and on the cultures, communities, and ties with husbands and children that women created. Mothers' skills in managing the family budget, earning income, and caring for their children were critical in protecting households from the worst hardships of industrial capitalism, yet poverty or the threat of it molded intimate relationships and left its imprint on personalities. This book is also a case study demonstrating the larger argument that the concept of "motherhood" is more socially and historically constructed than biologically determined. Shaky household economics, pressure toward respectability, the close proximity of neighbors, the precariousness of infant and child life, and little chance of better lives for their children shaped the work and emotions of motherhood much more than did the biological experiences of pregnancy, birth, and lactation. This beautifully written book, embellished with Cockney slang and music hall songs, addresses fascinating questions in the fields of women's studies, labor history, social policy, and family history."--pub. description.
Author : Mary Vivian Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : London (England)
ISBN : OCLC:1014879573
Author : Liza Picard
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780226521
From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London. Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons and transportation; the public utilities - Bazalgette on sewers and road design, Chadwick on pollution and sanitation; private charities - Peabody, Burdett Coutts - and workhouses; new terraced housing and transport, trains, omnibuses and the Underground; furniture and decor; families and the position of women; the prosperous middle classes and their new shops, such as Peter Jones and Harrods; entertaining and servants, food and drink; unlimited liability and bankruptcy; the rich, the marriage market, taxes and anti-semitism; the Empire, recruitment and press-gangs. The period begins with the closing of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons and ends with the first (steam-operated) Underground trains and the first Gilbert & Sullivan.
Author : Barbara Noble
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1903155509
Describes the mind of a child torn between her mother, whom she leaves behind in London, and the couple who take her in.
Author : Mary Vivian Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641752059
Author : Joanna Cannan
Publisher : Persephone Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123565892
'Princes in the Land' is about a woman bringing up a family who is left at the end, when the children are on the verge of adulthood, asking herself not only what it was all for but what was her own life for? Yet the questions are asked subtly and readably.
Author : Eleanor Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Barns
ISBN : 1903155193
Suitable for both adults and children to read, this 1938 novel shows five children successfully looking after themselves when their parents go away and fail to return.
Author : Simon Sleight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134789979
Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was ’perspiring juvenile humanity’ with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city’s inhabitants aged 14 and under - a demographic anomaly resulting from the gold rushes of the 1850s. Within this context, Simon Sleight enters the heated debate concerning the future prospects of ’Young Australia’ and the place of the colonial child within the incipient Australian nation. Looking beyond those institutional sites so often assessed by historians of childhood, he ranges across the outdoor city to chart the relationship between a discourse about youth, youthful experience and the shaping of new urban spaces. Play, street work, consumerism, courtship, gang-related activities and public parades are examined using a plethora of historical sources to reveal a hitherto hidden layer of city life. Capturing the voices of young people as well as those of their parents, Sleight alerts us to the ways in which young people shaped the emergent metropolis by appropriating space and attempting to impress upon the city their own desires. Here a dynamic youth culture flourished well before the discovery of the ’teenager’ in the mid-twentieth century; here young people and the city grew up together.
Author : Mary Vivian Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : London (England)
ISBN : UOM:39015008997689
