A Ragged Schooling
A Ragged Schooling
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Summary
In this autobiography, the author evokes his Edwardian childhood in his portrait of a vanished community as he tells how he and the other children of Salford struggled daily to survive the poverty that surrounded them.
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A Ragged Schooling by Robert Roberts
With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship. -- .'One of the best and most sensitive of English working-class autobiographies'
The Guardian
' A marvelous piece of work.. this vivid portrait of a vanished community ... bubbles with comic vitality
Spectator
'The autobiography of an exceptional man ... a memoir of quite extraordinary richness'
The Observer
Robert Roberts (1905–1979) was born in Salford in 1905. His books ‘The Classic Slum’ and ‘A Ragged Schooling’ have been hailed as classics of working class autobiography
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781901341010 |
| ISBN 10 | 1901341011 |
| Title | A Ragged Schooling |
| Author | Robert Roberts |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 1997-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |