Four meals for fourpence
Foakes, Grace2011
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'Four Meals for Fourpence' is Grace Foakes's memories of her early life in Wapping in the early 1900s. She describes the small details - shopping in the market, men waiting for work at the dock gates, the rituals of washday, and the sights, sounds and smells of the old East End of London.
Main title:
Four meals for fourpence / Grace Foakes ; edited by Joanna Goldsworthy.
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Imprint:
London : Virago, 2011.
Collation:
281 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This material originally appeared in Between high walls. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1972; My part of the river. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1974; and My life with Reuben. London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1975.
ISBN:
9781844087273 (pbk)
Dewey class:
942.150823092A942.150823FOA942.1508
Language:
English
Subject:
Foakes, Grace -- Childhood and youthFoakes, Grace -- Homes and haunts -- England -- LondonWorking class -- England -- London -- BiographyWapping (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryWapping (London, England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryWapping (London, England) -- Biography
BRN:
321972