- Paperback: 212 pages
- Publisher: The Larks Press (20 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904006302
- ISBN-13: 978-1904006305
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #23 in Books > History > Other Historical Subjects > Historiography
- #72 in Books > Biography > Historical > Britain > Social & Urban History
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Presents an oral history autobiography of life in a large family living in one of the poorest districts of Norwich.
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The Seventeenth Child,
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This review is from: The Seventeenth Child: Memories of a Norwich Childhood 1914-1934 (Paperback)
Oh how I am enjoying this Novel -I live near Norwich so can relate to all the Areas the Author is talking about. Its fasinating how a family of seventeen could live in such a small terrace house. Heating the copper on Sundays reminded of my childhood when my Father lit our copper in our Washhouse and I used to do a lot of the washing. Yes we used blue bags - had a mangle - used to have to watch we didnt nip our fingers.My housework might not get done for a day or too this week as I am really enjoying this Novel and cannot put it down.
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This review is from: The Seventeenth Child: Memories of a Norwich Childhood 1914-1934 (Paperback)
"Mommy, tell me a story about when you were little" Is something I hear from my daughter frequently. The seventeenth child is written in that same tradition of family story telling. I am captivated by Ethel's local dialect, by the truths in her observations and the fine detail of her memory. There is much humour and poignancy; such as the time when she was given a pair of shoes by a friend who worked at a local shoe factory. They were seconds, both left feet. Rather than let the children at school know she had two left shoes, she told them she was walking funny because she was crippled.
Anyone interested in womens studies and issues, will find this a very useful archive. Ethel paints a very detailed picture of the day to day life her mother lived, the chores, trials and triumphs. Life seemd to revolve around food. So much went into preparing it or securing it with what little money they had. To Ethel a thick round of bread and butter was beautiful. If you are familiar with Norwich you will recognize it in these pages, though perhaps with a new appreciation for where it has been. The added footnotes and photographs are very well done, giving insight into local slang, terms we no longer use, or historical background. It is a small shame that the title of this book has already been used by another - on Amazon.com I do hope that there will be a follow up that covers the war years.
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A precious memoir.,
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This review is from: The Seventeenth Child: Memories of a Norwich Childhood 1914-1934 (Paperback)
The problem for students of working-class history is that few families left written records. In capturing this piece of oral history, therefore, the Blackwells have preserved something precious, an account of everyday family life in the city of Norwich between the wars. Notwithstanding the privations of life in a large family, in a tiny terraced house, where drinking water was had from the communal pump, and the family's meagre budget was sometimes at the mercy of the corner shopkeeper, the account is, in places, not without nostalgia for happy times. It carries with it undoubted authenticity, not least in the way that Ethel's Norfolk accent has been reproduced, such that anyone familiar with Norfolk can hear a genuinely local voice speaking to them from the page. More than anything the book makes one aware of the changes that have taken place during the lifetimes of people still around today.It is important reading for the post-war generations, and not only for people interested in Norwich.
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