Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 371 g
An Autobiography
Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 371 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-08166-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
In this volume of autobiography Helen Corke, now aged 93, recalls her childhood and youth before the First World War. Her account has both a personal and a representative significance. Helen Corke has a gift for recounting the development of her own consciousness and her personality is revealed through this record of instinctive as well as of objective experience. Born into a Kentish middle-class family which was interested both in literature and trade, she was moved from town to country and back to a London suburb as her father's grocery business first prospered and then abruptly failed. Years of extreme poverty followed. For a gifted girl in such circumstances the only hope of further education was apprenticeship as an elementary school teacher. Helen took this course and records the grim (and grimy) conditions of primary education at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword; 1. Infancy; 2. Schooling; 3. Adolescence.
