Four meals for fourpence : a heartwarming tale of family life in London's old East End / 4 meals for fourpence
Foakes, Grace,
Four meals for fourpence : a heartwarming tale of family life in London's old East End / 4 meals for fourpence Grace Foakes; edited by Joanna Goldsworthy. - Large print ed. - Leicester : Thorpe, 2012. - 312 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's clear eye, she describes the sights, sounds and smells of the old East End of London: shopping in the market, men waiting for work at the dock gates, the rituals of washday. 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.
Adult.
9781444809589 144480958X
Foakes, Grace--Childhood and youth.
Foakes, Grace--Homes and haunts--England--London.
Working class--England--London--Biography.
Wapping (London, England)--Social conditions--20th century.
Wapping (London, England)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Wapping (London, England)--Biography.
Large type books.
942.1'50823'092
Four meals for fourpence : a heartwarming tale of family life in London's old East End / 4 meals for fourpence Grace Foakes; edited by Joanna Goldsworthy. - Large print ed. - Leicester : Thorpe, 2012. - 312 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
FOUR MEALS FOR FOURPENCE is Grace Foakes's memories of her girlhood in Wapping in the early 1900s. With a child's clear eye, she describes the sights, sounds and smells of the old East End of London: shopping in the market, men waiting for work at the dock gates, the rituals of washday. 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.
Adult.
9781444809589 144480958X
Foakes, Grace--Childhood and youth.
Foakes, Grace--Homes and haunts--England--London.
Working class--England--London--Biography.
Wapping (London, England)--Social conditions--20th century.
Wapping (London, England)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Wapping (London, England)--Biography.
Large type books.
942.1'50823'092