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Article: Voices from the poverty caste
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 10, 1996
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Growing Up Poor by Anna Davin Rivers Oram Press, pounds 19.95
If You Came This Way by Peter Davis John Wiley, pounds 15.95
Though the poor are always with us, the nature of their
condition changes. These books present two different worlds, London
at the turn of the century, and America now. The outward trappings
of poverty, the dirt, stink, hunger and cold, are similar, but the
substance is radically different.
Anna Davin's book, Growing Up Poor, is meticulously researched,
drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources to evoke a vanished
world of street games and barrel organs, bedbugs and smallpox,
washdays and workhouses and crowded streets where children rise at
dawn to work for a ...