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Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than heaven' as a playground. But a brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.
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A Child in the Forest, Winifred Foley
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1974
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Winifred Foley
- Éditeur
- Ariel Books
- Publié
- 1974
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0563204516
- ISBN13
- 9780563204510
- Séries
- Trilogie de la Forêt
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoire, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Autobiographies et mémoires, Littérature britannique
- Évaluation
- 3,8 sur 5
- Description
- Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than heaven' as a playground. But a brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.