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Author Ross, Ellen, author.

Title Love and toil : motherhood in outcast London, 1870-1918 / Ellen Ross.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Cover title: Love & toil.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299) and index.
Contents A NOTE ON ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CURRENCY AND USAGE; ABBREVIATIONS; TABLES; INTRODUCTION "The Other History": Motherhood; 1. "Miss, I Wish I Had Your Life": The Poor of London and Their Chroniclers; 2. "There Is Meat Ye Know Not Of": Feeding a Family; 3. "A Gamble You Have to Take": Marriage; 4. "What Is Fated Must Be": Having Babies; 5. "I'll Bring 'Em Up in My Way": Child Rearing; 6. "She Fought for Me like a Tigress": Sickness and Health; 7. "The Value of Babies": Transforming Motherhood, 1900-1918; CONCLUSION: Rediscovering Motherhood; NOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
Summary The history of the British working class has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions or national political parties. This study of mothers in London before World War I stresses the distinctiveness of their experiences from those of other classes, and of the post World War I period, and demonstrates the ways in which mothers and their domestic choices were essential to the survival and cultural perpetuation of the working classes.
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Subject Motherhood -- England -- London -- History.
Motherhood.
England -- London.
History.
Poor -- England -- London -- History.
Poor.
Working class -- England -- London -- History.
Working class.
Indexed Term Mothers History
London (England)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Motherhood.
Added Title Love & toil
Other Form: Print version: Ross, Ellen. Love and toil. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 0195039572 (DLC) 92040849 (OCoLC)27035006
ISBN 1423738411 (electronic book)
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9780195039573 (Cloth)
0195039572 (Cloth)
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