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Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin: A Family and Their Times, 1831-1931 (Paperback)

by Margaret Forster (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (24 Sep 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099748916
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099748915
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 334,675 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This account of the rise and prosperity of the biscuit manufacturers, Carr's of Carlisle, reveals the hidden lives behind the history of the great 19th-century manufacturing middle-class.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Burgeoning business outgrows family's concern, 8 Jan 2002
Very interesting piece of social history, written with a novelist's feel for character, about biscuit firm founded in Carlisle by JD Carr of strict Quaker upbringing. As well as an interesting account of the growth of a family business in Victorian England, also explores contradictions faced by quakers who became successful. Luckily I have not got a particularly sweet tooth or I would have been rushing to the biscuit aisle at tesco!
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