A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum
By (Author) Robert Roberts
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
5th June 1997
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
942.732083092
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Description
With great humour and vitality, Robert Roberts evokes his Edwardian childhood in the vivid portrait of a vanished community. Breathing the smoke from the factory chimneys, the children of Salford struggled daily to survive the grinding poverty that surrounded them. Sharing lively games along the railways lines and canal banks, their lives were rich in experience and comradeship. -- .
Reviews
'One of the best and most sensitive of English working-class autobiographies'
The Guardian
' A marvelous piece of work ... this vivid portrait of a vanished community ... bubbles with comic vitality
Spectator
'The autobiography of an exceptional man ... a memoir of quite extraordinary richness'
The Observer
Author Bio
Robert Roberts (19051979) was born in Salford in 1905. His books The Classic Slum and A Ragged Schooling have been hailed as classics of working class autobiography
