Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London by Jennifer Worth

Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London

The Midwife Trilogy #2

Jennifer Worth

294 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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When the workhouses of Britain officially closed in 1930, there was nowhere for inmates to go. So workhouses merely changed their names and carried on much the same as before. The conditions, rules and lifestyle that continued to be endured by the...

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