Round About a Pound a Week

Reeves, Maud Pember

ISBN 10: 190315569X / ISBN 13: 9781903155691

Published by Persephone Books Ltd, London, 2008

About this Item

217 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. This copy is the 2008 printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Round About a Pound a Week
• Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190315569X
• ISBN 13: 9781903155691
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This is a study of working-class life in Lambeth, London, in the early years of the 20th century that is witty, readable, poignant and fascinating.

In 1909 a group of women, all of them members of the feminist, left-wing Fabian Women's Group, would regularly leave their comfortable homes in Kensington and Hampstead and call on forty-two families in Lambeth in order to interview them about their everyday life. They wrote down their findings and in 1912 these were written up as a twenty-page Fabian Tract which Maud Pember Reeves (1865-1953) and her co-author Charlotte Wilson decided to turn into the more snappily titled Round about a Pound a Week. The sixteen chapters, covering such topics as Housing, Thrift, Food and Mothers’ Days, resulted in a book of stunning interest and originality which has never really been rivalled in the nearly 100 years since first publication in 1913.