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Dull and slow the long busy line of the Canal stretched out along the flat meadows - the monotonous towing path and a bare hedge beyond keeping step as it were by a dirty black coal barge, with a blank sameness of reiteration, which seemed to make it hardly possible for those on board to know whether any advance was made at all - for ever moving, yet never making any progress.
The day was bleak, the January Wind was bitingly cold and keen there was sleet in the air, wetting and freezing by turns; it blew in the teeth of the miserable horse which was tugging at the rickety old boat, and in the faces of two little girls who were running behind him, keeping him up to his work with sticks and stones. They were wretchedly clad, and their thin cotton frocks and shawls, their battered bonnets, seemed to let in the icy wind at every point, chilling them to the bone, while they could hardly manage to keep their worn shoes upon their little chilblained feet.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book, the first of three, is set during the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars and tells the story of Joan Ogden, a young woman who has married an abusive and irresponsible bargeman. After leaving him, she finds herself abandoned and alone, with two young children to support. The author has drawn on extensive research to create a vivid picture of the social conditions of the time and the lives of the working poor. This book explores the themes of poverty, domestic abuse, and the struggle to raise a family under the most difficult of circumstances. The author's keen eye for detail and her understanding of the human condition make this a powerful and moving story. This book sheds light on the struggles and resilience of people living on the margins of society during a period of great social and economic change. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9780243896462_0
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