Rich Desserts and Captain's Thin : A Family and Their Times 1831-1931 Paperback / softback
by Margaret Forster
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In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise.
Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world -and is a by-word for biscuits to this day.
Following his trail to Carlisle (where she herself was born and grew up), Margaret Forster brings 19th-century daily life into vivid focus and charts the rise and rise of a middle-class family like the Carrs, ambitious, innovative yet sternly religious.
This is history as it was lived by the men and women both above and below stairs - from the shop floor to the comfortable bourgeois homes of the paternalistic Carrs.
We see the conflict between religion and profit, the family feuds and the changing face of a city through this compelling historical narrative, told with Margaret Forster's characteristic blend of scholarship, readability and marvellous attention to the texture of everyday life.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:22/08/2016
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- ISBN:9781784705541
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:22/08/2016
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- ISBN:9781784705541