Title: A Cornish Childhood
Subtitle: Autobiography of a Cornishman
First published: 1942
Description: 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.
Subjects: Biography, Social life and customs, English Authors, Childhood and youth, Youth, Social life & customs, Cornwall (england : county), social life and customs, Authors, english, Authors, biography
Places: Cornwall (England : County), Cornwall
People: A. L. Rowse (1903-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR6035.O84 Z5 1979