Landscape For A Good Woman by Carolyn Steedman - ISBN: 9780860685593
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Two childhoods, two eras: a mother, a daughter, and untold stories.

Landscape For A Good Woman

A Story of Two Women

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  • Paperback

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    15 May 1996

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Summary

This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don’t quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties childhood by the one my mother had lived out before me, and the stories she told about it.

Intricate and inspiring, this unusual book uses autobiographical elements to depict a mother and her daughter and two working-class childhoods (B…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780860685593
ISBN-10:0860685594
Author:Carolyn Steedman
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:15 May 1996
Weight:148g
Dimensions:216mm x 128mm x 14mm
Series:Virago classic non-fiction
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Critics Review

I read Landscape for a Good Woman, and some things (not all, because this is not a fairy tale) started to fall into place

‘I read Landscape for a Good Woman, and some things (not all, because this is not a fairy tale) started to fall into place’ Kathryn Hughes

About The Author

Carolyn Steedman

Carolyn Steedman was born in 1947 and grew up in South London. Her first book, The Tidy House (Virago 1983) was the winner of the 1983 Fawcett Society Book Award. She lives in Leamington Spa and is Professor in the History Department at the University of Warwick.

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