In the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties
Autor Jane Robinsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 feb 2016
In the Family Waytells secrets kept for entire lifetimes: long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home. Anonymous childhoods are recalled, spent in the care of Dr Barnardo or a Child Migration scheme halfway across the world.
There are sorrowful stories in this book, but it is also about hope: about supportive families who welcomed 'love-children' home, or those who were parted and are now reconciled. Most of all,In the Family Wayis about finally telling the truth.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241962916
ISBN-10: 0241962919
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 133 x 197 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241962919
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 133 x 197 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Jane
Robinson
was
born
in
Edinburgh,
brought
up
in
North
Yorkshire
and
read
English
at
Somerville
College,
Oxford.Inthe
Family
Wayis
her
ninth
book,
and
like
her
previous
work,
including
the
acclaimedBluestockings(25,000
TCM)
andA
Force
to
Be
Reckoned
With:
A
History
of
the
Women's
Institute(8,000
TCM),
it
confirms
her
as
one
of
our
most
engaging
and
original
social
historians.
Jane
lives
near
Oxford
with
her
husband
and
two
sons.
Recenzii
An
important
social
history
tracked
through
personal
stories
that
need
to
be
heard,
and
will
soon
be
beyond
memory.
They
are
not
all
harrowing.Compassion
breaks
through
the
stony
ground
The great surprise in Jane Robinson's new history of mid-century illegitimacy is how long these opinions- the children may be blameless, but assisting them would mean condoning the intemperance of their mothers -persisted.Robinson has made contact with 100 unmarried mothers and their progeny and deftly interweaves their stories with the political and institutional history
A tragic litany of society's readiness to blame the most vulnerable for their own misfortunes . . .In the Family Wayis full of heart-wrenching storiesof young women kept in ignorance of the facts of life.Robinson has a good eye for the human story and the affecting detail that brings alive the hypocritical moral landscape of the period
Robinson's mix of official data and personal anecdote is powerful and persuasive
Robinson has worked to give back a voice to those not traditionally allowed one . . . Taken together, the individual stories of secrecy and enforced separation forma powerful testament to the hypocrisy and cruelty of our culture
[In the Family Way's] heart is firmly in the right place. It is a book that makes a woman want to reach for an AK47 to avenge the past;or at the very least to buy a copy to politicize their daughters
The closer Robinson's survey comes to our own day, the more shocking it grows. . .In the Family Wayis not, incidentally, without its funny side.I particularly enjoyed this
Jane Robinson has managed to elicit over 100 personal accounts of illegitimacy and it is these letters and interviews that give the book its force - that, andthe author's manifest warm-heartedness. The book is grounded in testimonies from real people -heartbreaking, some of them
In the Family Wayis bothengaging and incredibly moving and will strike a profound chord with many readers
Riveting. . . Part of the book's charm is itssubtle interweaving of personal accounts with astute historical analysis
Incredibly touching. . . Robinson reveals family secrets kept for entire lifetimes.Full of poignant memories of illegitimate children brought up between WW1 and the 1960s, this is an elegant and compassionately written examination, with a thought-provoking sting in its tail
I am one of the women written about in Jane Robinson'sIn the Family Way. I was put in one of the homes by a mother who cared more about what the neighbours thought than how I would feel when she was taken away from me for adoption.They were awful times and Jane has done a great service by writing this book.So many people I have spoken to recently did not even know these places existed, but to myself and all the other young mothers involved they will never be forgotten. Thank you Jane for exposing it for all to see!
Robinson discovered many older people still damaged by being or bearing an illegitimate child. They swamped her with testimonies, butit is telling that almost all of the 100 interviewees asked to remain anonymous
A compassionate history
The great surprise in Jane Robinson's new history of mid-century illegitimacy is how long these opinions- the children may be blameless, but assisting them would mean condoning the intemperance of their mothers -persisted.Robinson has made contact with 100 unmarried mothers and their progeny and deftly interweaves their stories with the political and institutional history
A tragic litany of society's readiness to blame the most vulnerable for their own misfortunes . . .In the Family Wayis full of heart-wrenching storiesof young women kept in ignorance of the facts of life.Robinson has a good eye for the human story and the affecting detail that brings alive the hypocritical moral landscape of the period
Robinson's mix of official data and personal anecdote is powerful and persuasive
Robinson has worked to give back a voice to those not traditionally allowed one . . . Taken together, the individual stories of secrecy and enforced separation forma powerful testament to the hypocrisy and cruelty of our culture
[In the Family Way's] heart is firmly in the right place. It is a book that makes a woman want to reach for an AK47 to avenge the past;or at the very least to buy a copy to politicize their daughters
The closer Robinson's survey comes to our own day, the more shocking it grows. . .In the Family Wayis not, incidentally, without its funny side.I particularly enjoyed this
Jane Robinson has managed to elicit over 100 personal accounts of illegitimacy and it is these letters and interviews that give the book its force - that, andthe author's manifest warm-heartedness. The book is grounded in testimonies from real people -heartbreaking, some of them
In the Family Wayis bothengaging and incredibly moving and will strike a profound chord with many readers
Riveting. . . Part of the book's charm is itssubtle interweaving of personal accounts with astute historical analysis
Incredibly touching. . . Robinson reveals family secrets kept for entire lifetimes.Full of poignant memories of illegitimate children brought up between WW1 and the 1960s, this is an elegant and compassionately written examination, with a thought-provoking sting in its tail
I am one of the women written about in Jane Robinson'sIn the Family Way. I was put in one of the homes by a mother who cared more about what the neighbours thought than how I would feel when she was taken away from me for adoption.They were awful times and Jane has done a great service by writing this book.So many people I have spoken to recently did not even know these places existed, but to myself and all the other young mothers involved they will never be forgotten. Thank you Jane for exposing it for all to see!
Robinson discovered many older people still damaged by being or bearing an illegitimate child. They swamped her with testimonies, butit is telling that almost all of the 100 interviewees asked to remain anonymous
A compassionate history