Four Meals For Fourpence
A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's old East End
Published on 12. May 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-84408-727-3 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Illustrations
Integrated: 12, line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
226 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84408-727-3 (9781844087273)
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05/2011
Virago Press Ltd
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Person
Grace Foakes was born in Wapping in 1901.