Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves
From 1909 to 1913, undaunted by the proposition that a 'bi-weekly visit to Lambeth is like a plunge into Hades', the Fabian Women's Group recorded the daily budgets of thirty families there. In 1913 they published this unique record in Round About a Pound a Week. We learn about family life, births, marriages and deaths; of grinding work carried out on a diet of little more than bread, jam and margarine. We learn how they coped with damp, vermin and bedbugs; how they slept - four to a bed, in banana crates; how they washed, cooked, cleaned, scrimped for furniture and clothes, saved for all too frequent burials...This classic text is one of the most important and vivid historical portraits of the daily life of working people in the early part of the twentieth century.
This book might have been joyless but isn't.. a classic study Penelope Fitzgerald Classic, graphic account of the needy before the first world war DAILY EXPRESS Fascinating ... I shall think of this book next time I'm stuck in a tesco checkout queue DAILY MAIL As engrossing and necessary a read now as it was then. SCOTSMAN
Magdalen Stuart (Maud Pember Reeves), a new Zealander, came to London in 1896. She was a social reformer and feminist. She was appointed Director of the Educational and Propaganda Department of the Ministry of Food in the First World War. She had three children and died in 1953.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780860680666 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860680665 |
| Title | Round About a Pound a Week |
| Author | Maud Pember Reeves |
| Series | Virago Reprint Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1979-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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