Life as We Have Known it Davies Margaret Llewelyn
Life as We Have Known it Davies Margaret Llewelyn 'I was born in Bethnal Green . . . I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me . . . a tiny scrap of humanity. First published in…
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Life as We Have Known it Davies Margaret Llewelyn
'I was born in Bethnal Green . . . I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me . . . a tiny scrap of humanity.
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'. 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. 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