Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times

by Carmen Callil

Book Overview

Carmen Callil explores her roots in a book that is a miracle of research and whose writing is fuelled by righteous anger - a story of Empire, migration and the poverty and injustice of nineteenth-century England

In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great-grandmother Sary Lacey, born illegitimate in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker in Leicestershire. Through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099548569
• ISBN13: 9780099548560
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"