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A Cornish childhood : autobiography of a Cornishman by Alfred Leslie Rowse is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The book begins with a portrait of my native Cornish village, as it remained virtually unchanged from Victorian days, with its old customs, characters, and stories, up to the war of 1914-1918. For this part I have relied upon a note-book which I kept while my father was alive, in which I jotted down stories and memories of his that take us back to the village as it was in the 1860s. While for the later chapters I had my own schoolboy diaries, which I kept during my last years at school, to go upon and keep me straight. With these aids I hope that the book may reveal something of the inner process of a working-class child's education, and may have some value for the discussions as to the future shaping of our educational system. - Preface.

Who reads A Cornish childhood : autobiography of a Cornishman?

Author

Alfred Leslie Rowse

Publisher

New York: Clarkson N. Potter: distributed by Crown Publishers

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780517538456

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.5 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14