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Manchester Fourteen Miles was the inscription on the signpost outside 'Moss Ferry', the village where 'Hilda Winstanley' grew up before the First World War. The seemingly short distance from the capital of England's cotton industry was nonetheless the distance between one world and another. 'Moss Ferry' was a village which belonged to the old agricultural order, that is before cotton arrived. It had hardly changed, economically or socially for hundreds of years. Margaret Penn was Hilda Winstanley, taken into a farm labourer's family and brought up as one of them. She was an illegitimate child, her real father being a far richer man, and her sense of being different lent her powers of social observation a greater sharpness. The three volumes of this Lancashire childhood were popular with reviewers and readers in the late 1940s but then fell out of print. They now hold new appeal, as an important record of a fascinating period of social history, as well as a moving and evocative account of one woman's life. Cambridge University Press is delighted to make them available for a new generation to enjoy.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Manchester, Fourteen Miles
• Author: Penn
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252
• EAN: 9780521280655
• ISBN: 0521280656
• ID: 02026396
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 338 g
• Dimensions: 142 × 216 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. March 1981

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