Family from One End Street, The (out of print)
Author(s): Eve Garnett
A story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the small town of Otwell. The father is a dustman and the mother a washerwoman, but because they are poor the children find even greater opportunities for adventure in their ordinary lives.
Product Information
Eve Garnett was born in 1900 in Worcestershire, and studied art at Chelsea Polytechnic and the Royal Academy School of Art. Whilst a student, she sketched the people of the East End slums and was haunted by the poverty she had witnessed, resolving to do something to bring the plight of the working-class family to people's attention. The Family from One End Street was originally published by Frederick Muller in 1937, followed by The Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street in 1956, and Holiday at Dew Drop Inn in 1962. She died in 1991.
General Fields
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.215
- : 25 March 2004
- : 198mm X 129mm X 19mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Eve Garnett
- : Paperback
- : 823.912
- : 320
- : Illustrations