In this companion volume to <EM>Useful Toil</EM>, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life. Besides
Sunnylea : a 1920's childhood remembered
β Scribed by Metcalfe, Jean, 1923-
- Publisher
- London : Michael Joseph
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
62 pages : 25 cm
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