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" ... was, indeed, in thoughts and manner, a woman. There was something cruelly pathetic in hearing this infant, so young that her features had scarcely formed themselves, talking of the bitterest struggles of life, with the calm earnestness of one who... "
London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and ... - Página 151
por Henry Mayhew - 1851
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1851 - 854 páginas
...the breakfast-tables of the poor with the refreshing but simple luxury of water-cresses. ' The little girl who gave me the following statement, although...that I might, by being familiar with her, remove all shJ-ness, and get her to narrate her life freely. I asked her about her toys and her games with her...
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The Eclectic Review

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 880 páginas
...luxury of water-cresses. ' The little girl who gave me the following statement, although onlyeight years of age, had entirely lost all childish ways,...by being familiar with her, remove all shyness, and got her to narrate her life freely. I asked her about her toys and her games with her companions ;...
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Two Prize Essays on Juvenile Delinquency

Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - 474 páginas
...matter beyond all doubt. In reference to a girl but eight years old, he A uttie girir states — " I did not know how to talk with her. At first I treated her as a child, speaking on childish subjects ; I asked her about her toys and her games, but the look of amazement that met me soon put an end to...
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Two Prize Essays on Juvenile Delinquency

Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - 470 páginas
...matter beyond all doubt. In reference to a girl but eight years old, he A little girl? states — " I did not know how to talk with her. At first I treated her as a child, speaking on childish subjects; I asked her about her toys and her games, but the look of amazement that met me soon put an end to...
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The Christian journal

1854 - 594 páginas
...all doubt. In reference to a girl but eight years old he states — "I did not know how to talk to her. At first I treated her as a child, speaking on childish subjects ; I asked her about her toys and her games, but the look of amazement that met me soon put an end to...
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London labour and the London poor, Volumen1

Henry Mayhew - 1861 - 574 páginas
...hearing thÍ!i infant, so young that her features had scarcely formed themselves, talking of the bitlerot struggles of life, with the calm earnestness of one...toys and her games with her companions ; but the look of amazement that answered me soon put an end to any attempt at fun on my part. I then tilked to her...
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Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives

Carolyn Steedman - 1987 - 180 páginas
...talking of the bitterest struggles of life, with the calm earnestness of one who has endured them all. At first I treated her as a child, speaking on childish...familiar with her, remove all shyness and get her to relate her life freely . . . The method did not work; the child would not be treated as a child; 'a...
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The Subcultures Reader

Ken Gelder, Sarah Thornton - 1997 - 616 páginas
...girl who gave me the following statement, although only eight years of age, had entirely lost all her childish ways, and was, indeed, in thoughts and manner,...toys and her games with her companions; but the look of amazement that answered me soon put an end to any attempt at fun on my part. (Mayhew 1985: 64-65)...
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The Subcultures Reader

Ken Gelder, Sarah Thornton - 1997 - 620 páginas
...talking of the hitterest struggles of life, with the cahn earnestness of one who had endured them all. 1 did not know how to talk with her. At first I treated...toys and her games with her companions; but the look of amazement that answered me soon put an end to any attempt at fun on my part. (Mayhew 1985: 64-65)...
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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism

Kevin Kerrane, Ben Yagoda - 1998 - 564 páginas
...heroism of the unknown poor" and by an artist's eye for archetypes rather than stereotypes. — KK The little watercress girl who gave me the following...toys and her games with her companions; but the look of amazement that answered me soon put an end to any attempt at fun on my part. 1 then talked to her...
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