A Child in the Forest - Hardcover

A Child in the Forest

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Tricia Newell (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback.couplie of very tiny nicks to top edge of jacketJ. A classic account of childhood set over 60 years ago in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, this book brings to life the remote world of generations of miners' families. Blessed with a vivid memory and a natural ear for dialogue, Winifred Foley recreates the life of a warmhearted, loving family. She remembers the small, evocative details - the picture on the coffee tin where granny kept her important papers - so that her world lives again, sturdy, unsentimental, full of the good humour that was the cottager's natural response to a hard life. At 14 Winifred left her rural world for London, where she had applied for a job as a lady's maid. Her adventures in the East End and in the Cotsworlds, where she was maid to a cantankerous old lady of 91, provide a touching end to her childhood. This book lends itself to illustration, and this new edition is decorated, in the syle of a medieval manuscript, with a series of illuminating borders that mark the changing seasons, and with many charming drawings. Illustrated.254 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Artikel-Nr. 097617

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