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Four Meals For Fourpence: A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Jun Pages: 288 in Publisher: Virago UK A heartwarming memoir of working-class life in the East End in the early 1900sI. was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died. In this book. Grace Foakes shares her memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's uncluttered eye. she describes the small details-shopping in the market. men waiting for work at the dock gates. the rituals of washday. and the sights. sounds. and smells of the old East End of London. She also describes the fear-of illness. of unemployment. of the workhouse-that hung over her family and thousands like them. and her determination that her own ...Read More

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    'I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.' FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's uncluttered eye she describes the small details - shopping in the market men waiting for work at the dock gates the rituals of washday the sights sounds and smells of the old East End of London. She also describes the fear - of illness of unemployment of the workhouse - that hung over her family and thousands like them and her determination that her own children would never know the kind of poverty she had experienced.

  • Foyles

    I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.'FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's uncluttered eye, she describes the small details - shopping in the market, men waiting for work at the dock gates, the rituals of washday, the sights, sounds and smells of the old East End of London. She also describes the fear - of illness, of unemployment, of the workhouse - that hung over her family and thousands like them, and her determination that her own children would never know the kind of poverty she had experienced.

  • Blackwell

    * A heartwarming memoir of working-class life in the East End in the early 1900s I was born in a tenement flat in the East End of London in the year in which Queen Victoria died.' FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood...

  • BookDepository

    Four Meals For Fourpence : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9781844087273 : 1844087271 : 08 Jun 2011 : * A heartwarming memoir of working-class life in the East End in the early 1900s

  • 1844087271
  • 9781844087273
  • Grace Foakes
  • 12 May 2011
  • Virago
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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