There were two very different lifestyles in eighteenth century England. There was that of the rich and that of the poor. Around this time period it was the Industrial Revolution, which started in the middle of the century. This came with new machinery that saved time and made some people very wealthy. The rich were getting richer and the poor, poorer. My father and mother had four other children aside from myself. I was the oldest amongst them all. So when mother was attending to things around the house, I was watching little Mary, Charlie, Edith, and Joseph. One day father came home from work early. Mother was already having a rough day, our food shortage was just getting worse and worse. Father asked me to take
There were two very different lifestyles in eighteenth century England. There was that of the rich and that of the poor. Around this time period it was the Industrial Revolution, which started in the middle of the century. This came with new machinery that saved time and made some people very wealthy. The rich were getting richer and the poor, poorer. My father and mother had four other children aside from myself. I was the oldest amongst them all. So when mother was attending to things around the house, I was watching little Mary, Charlie, Edith, and Joseph. One day father came home from work early. Mother was already having a rough day, our food shortage was just getting worse and worse. Father asked me to take