Swansea girl
a memoir
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Word Count
53,500 words, Guess
Page Count
214 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10185411381X
- ISBN-139781854113818
- LibraryThing563037
- WikidataQ76906402
- Goodreads2426720
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- OCLC Control Number57166469
- Better World Books9781854113818
- Open LibraryOL19145598M
Classifications
- LCCPR55
Description
"Swansea Girl is a recollection of childhood and adolescence told with an attractive candour and made vivid by the author's remarkable eye for detail. It concentrates on the period 1924-42."--BOOK JACKET. "Barbara Hardy's maternal grandfather came from a Devon family, some of whom took part in the emigration across the Bristol Channel to the late-Victorian industries of South Wales. This family married into a Welsh tribe of Joneses. Her father's family was of Eastern European Jewish ancestry. The author groups her memories into themes, forming a broadly sequential pattern - mother and father, brother and cousins, schools, culture, politics, religion, sex and love. And she shows us how the lives of her parents were shaped by history, in particular by the two world wars, the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the thirties Depression."--BOOK JACKET. "Barbara and her brother Bill grew up in the provincial culture of their time, in a Baptist religion, a narrow moral code and with the mixed blessings of an elementary and grammar-school education. Yet the emphasis of this appealing story is on family life, with its rich throng of relations, friends and languages, and their compelling influences."--BOOK JACKET.
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