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In Our Infancy

In Our Infancy

In Our Infancy

An Autobiography
Part 1
Author:
Helen Corke
Published:
September 2008
Part:
1. 1882–1912
Availability:
Available
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780521081665

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    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.

    Product details

    • Published: September 2008
    • Format: Paperback
    • ISBN: 9780521081665
    • Length: 260 pages
    • Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 15 mm
    • Weight: 0.3kg
    • Availability: Available

    Author

    Helen Corke