Description
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.
* A heartwarming memoir of working-class life in the East End in the early 1900s
About the Author
Grace Foakes was born in Wapping in 1901.
Book Information
ISBN 9781844087273
Author Grace Foakes
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 232g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm * 22mm
