Round about a Pound a Week
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- University students and scholars studying British social history, economic history, or the history of social welfare
- General readers interested in early twentieth-century urban poverty and family life history
- People engaged in social surveys, social work, or public-policy research with an interest in historical experience
- Nonfiction readers who enjoy original survey records and household-account documents
Not a good fit for
- Casual readers expecting plot-driven narrative or literary description
- Practitioners seeking solutions or policy recommendations for contemporary poverty
- Readers with limited English proficiency unwilling to consult reference tools for older expressions
Reading tips
- Begin with the table of contents and introduction to understand the survey's scope and family sample, then read chapter by chapter by theme
- Keep pen and paper to record each family's income and expenditure items, comparing differences in food and rent allocation across families
- Look up conversions when encountering old currency and measurement units, so unfamiliar units do not lead to misreading the data
- Read alongside other British social surveys of the same period to build a fuller historical frame of reference
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Mrs. Pember Reeves (1865–1953), born Maud Pember Reeves, was a British social reformer, supporter of the women's movement, and writer. Her representative work, Round about a Pound a Week, documents the everyday lives of poor families in a London district living on about one pound a week, detailing household budgets, food, rent, child-rearing, and housework. Based on investigation and observation, the book uses plain, clear narration to stay close to ordinary people's circumstances and is an important source for the study of early twentieth-century British urban poverty and family life. Public information is limited, and the details of her life and the full range of her work await further study.
