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Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton

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What's Your Dream for the Future?

The girls were asked to give accounts of how much pocket money they get. One girl says that she wants to be a millionaire and have a handsome young man for her husband. What they what they're almost universally don't want to do is go to work in the mill. It's dirty and it's smelly and it's noisy. The essays are so touching as well, because this is 19 37 when they're writing,. And we know and they don't, when they'reWriting about the future about what is going on two years later.

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