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Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s by Proffessor John Burnett, John Burnett (Paperback, 1994)

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Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family From the 1820s to the 1920s (Modern British History). Author:Burnett, Proffessor John. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life.

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In this companion volume to Useful Toil , John Burnett has drawn extensively on over 800 previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of 19-century working-class life. Besides offering rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for support. Children have seldom had a voice in history: individual to the last, these writers and their experiences take their place as part of the essential fabric of our past. Burnett has also plublished Plenty and Want: A Social History of Diet in England From 1815 to the Present (Routledge); A History of the Cost of Living (1969); The Challenge of the Nineteenth Century (1970); Useful Toil (1974); Destiny Obscure (1982); and Idle Hands: The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990 (Routledge).