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Cargando... A Child in the Forest (1974)por Winifred Foley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is Winifred Foley's memoir of her childhood in the Forest of Dean, and her life in service before meeting her husband. Foley paints a colourful picture of her life and the people in it. Despite the unrelenting, horrifying poverty and hunger, the book is full of anecdotes, hijinks and laughter. She is only 14 when she goes out into service, and the things she takes in her stride are amazing! ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than heaven' as a playground. But a brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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