Pottles of Peas and Memories of Maltesers

Ronald Pearsall enjoys reminiscences about growing up in Edwardian England

Ronald Pearsall | Published in 30 Apr 1981

Edwardian Childhoods by Thea Thompson

(Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1981 248pp + 50 illustrations)

At the beginning of this century S. Baring-Gould, Cecil Sharp, and many others went about the country collecting folk songs that were in danger of dying out. The children of that period are now being canvassed by sociologists not for folk song but for folk memory, and Edwardian Childhoods contains nine transcriptions of interviews diligently carried out, and ringing true.

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