Proffessor John Burnett, John Burnett

Useful Toil (eBook, ePUB)

Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs.
Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136151088
• Artikelnr.: 39576616

Autorenporträt

John Burnett

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The Labouring Classes; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Anonymous Navvy*'Autobiography of a Navvy'
Macmillan's Magazine
Vol. v
1861-2.; Chapter 3 Farm Labourer*From unpublished autobiography.
Tom Mullins; Chapter 4 Straw-Plait Worker*From 'A Little of my Life'
London Mercury
edited by J. C. Squire
Vol. XIII
No. 76
November 1925-April 1926.
Lucy Luck; Chapter 5 Weaver*From The diary of John Ward of Clitheroe
weaver
1860-64. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year 1953. Vol. 105
1954
pp. 161 et seq.
John Ward (O'neil); Chapter 6 Sweet-Boiler*From 'Before my Time'
Granada Television interview
1963.
William Luby; Chapter 7 Coal-Miner*Unpublished autobiography.
Thomas Jordan; Chapter 8 Coal-Miner*From These Poor Hands. The Autobiography of a Miner working in South Wales
Gollancz
1939.
B. L. Coombes; Chapter 9 Shop Assistant*From One Woman's Story
unpublished autobiography.
Winifred Griffiths; Chapter 10 Munitions-Factory Worker*Unpublished autobiographical extract.
Rosina Whyatt; Part 2 Domestic Servants; Chapter 11 Introduction; Chapter 12 Footman*From Diary of William Tayler
Footman
1837
edited by Dorothy Wise
with notes by Ann Cox-Johnson
St Marylebone Society Publications Group
1962. William Tayler's Diary is the property of Mr Richard Willoughby Bartlett
and the editor
Dorothy Wise
acknowledges his permission to reproduce.
William Tayler; Chapter 13 House-Steward*From From Hall-Boy to House-Steward
Edward Arnold & Co.
1925.
Lanceley William; Chapter 14 Chef*From Royal Chef. Recollections of Life in Royal Households from Queen Victoria to Queen Mary
as told to Joan Powe
William Kimber
1954 and 1974.
Gabriel Tschumi; Chapter 15 Butler*'A Butler's View of Man-Service'
The Nineteenth Century: a Monthly Review
January-June 1892
Vol. XXXI
1892.
John Robinson; Chapter 16 Page-Boy*The extract
which describes his life as a page-boy at the Almacks Bridge Club
London
in 1904
is from