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The Echoing Green: Memories of Victorian Youth

gillian avery

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A social history of nineteenth century England and the United States as reflected in the biographies, diaries, and letters of contemporary people.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1974

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256 pages, Hardcover
Published
September 9, 1974 by Viking Juvenile
ISBN
9780670288373
ASIN
0670288373
Language
English

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Gillian Elise Avery was a British children's novelist, and a historian of childhood education and children's literature. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972 for A Likely Lad. It was adapted for television in 1990.

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history of 1800's England (and a little bit of US too) from the letters and writings of those who lived it. It begins with the memories of the Jubilee of King George III in 1810 and goes through to the funeral of Queen Victoria. Fascinating peek into English life at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, through the coming of the rail system, and the Industrial Revolution.
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"I wonder whether it is true that I was allowed to be worked for fourteen hours a day when a little over seven years of age," wrote Charles Shaw, contrasting the plenty that he saw about him in 1893 with the famine and despair of the Pottery towns in the Hungry Forties. "Whether it is true that even poor children now receive a better education than what I heard Tom Hughes once say he received when he was a boy at a much greater cost? I wonder whether it is true that I ate the sparse and miserably adulterated bread of the Corn Law times; if the rags, and squalor, and severe labour and long hours of those days are all illusions? I wonder if these are real people in their thronging thousands, on holiday, that I see, who have shares in 'stores', who have deposits in savings banks, who have portmaneaux, boxes of all sizes and kinds, making up tons of baggage in connection with a trip, surpassing that of 'their betters' seventy years ago?"

When I'm feeling sorry for myself for some pathetic reason, this book smacks me back to reality.

Life is beautiful!
I live like a king!
Orchestras play at my command!
Electronic servants do my bidding!
Have I ever worked a 14 hour day? I don't recall.
But I certainly do recall all the things I have to be thankful for.
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