Destiny Obscure - 9781138172784

In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.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 affording rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for support. Children have seldom had a voice in history: these writers and their experiences take their place as part of the essential fabric of our past.

• | Author: John Burnett
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jul 29, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 388 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138172782
• | ISBN-13: 9781138172784