Buy this book on-line DUDGEON**, PIERS with COX, JOSEPHINE: : JOSEPHINE COX: CHILD OF THE NORTH - MEMORIES OF A NORTHERN CHILDHOODLONDON.HEADLINE,2001. ISBN 0755310047.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated colour-tinted sepia photographic front panel with fluorescent bronze gilt and blue and brown lettering,brown,gilt and black lettering to spine,rear panel with mixture of sepia+b/w photographs with subject's portrait colour photograph superimposed and black+brown lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges or corners - one small, vertical closed tear of approx. 7/10ths" at foot of front of spine's gutter's edge with some creasing - no other nicks or tears present. Bright,near pristine top+fore-edges; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original blue/grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,blue/grey headband and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-192pp includes an introuction by Josephine Cox,a coloured regional map (2001),a prologue includes an 1882 town (Blackburn) b/w map,3 chapters,books by Josephine Cox (27 and 6 as Jane Brindle - to date,then 2001),profuse contemporary sepia photographs and modern colour photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,an index,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title,double-page,sepia photographic title page,a contents list/table.
Josephine Cox was born in Blackburn during its decline as the cotton-weaving capital of the world.Life was hard but characterful,the joys and tragedies of her youth later inspiring her multi-million selling novels.
One of ten children,Jo knew poverty,hunger and the charity of the Ragged School.Between births her mother worked in the cotton mills,her father on the roads.Sleeping up to six in a bed - 'three top,three bottom' - her family lived among the tightly packed,working-class terraces of Blackburn.But Jo never felt victimised or shamed.
Transforming their closed-in community into one that inspired 'another kind of love,a deep sense of belonging' were the characters Jo writes about in her novels: old Miss Tilly and Fancy Carruthers in bed together in their frilly green caps; thoroughly bad Maisie Thorogood,the rag- and-bone lady; and bargee Sal Tanner,whose real-life counterpart lived in a canal bank shed.'All the kids used to go and see her,'as they did Fountain Crossland,their Pied iper,a man dressed in high heels and short skirt.
But,alas,reality was not only this.Hand in hand with poverty came deprivation and domestic difficulties.At the end of her tether,Jo's mother gathered her children around her in the bus station one day and said,'We're leaving. . . ' Jo was fourteen years old.Not only did she lose her friends and father,but her brothers were left behind too: 'Belonging to a street,to a place,to a family,is the most important thing.'This is the loss out of which Jo's novels were born.
'Child of the North',written with her co-operation,and illustrated with period and specially commissioned colour photographs, unveils the world of Josephine Cox - her own story,told for the first time.
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