Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s

by John Burnett

Book Overview

In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts.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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415104017
• ISBN13: 9780415104012
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"