by Pamela Oldfield · Hippo/Scholastic · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780439977302
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«Victorian Workhouse» is the historical novel for young readers by Pamela Oldfield, published in 2004 by Hippo/Scholastic in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Edith Lorrimer, protected daughter of a well-off widow, narrates in her 1871 diary the visits to the workhouse where her mother sits on the board. There she meets Rosie Chubb, a troubled orphan, and comes closer to the harsh conditions of the place: exhausting work, overcrowding and poverty. Her privileged gaze highlights inequality.
The book belongs to the My Story series and bears the subtitle The Diary of Edith Lorrimer, England 1871.
Suitable for young readers and for those seeking historical fiction set in Victorian times told in the first person.
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