Round About a Pound a WeekRound About a Pound a Week

From 1909 to 1913, the Fabian Women's Group recorded the daily budgets of 30 families in Lambeth, living on about a pound a week. In 1913, they published their findings in this portrait of the daily life of working people. The source material covers family life, births, marriages and deaths; the grinding work carried out on a diet of little more than bread, jam and margarine. Readers can learn how they coped with damp, vermin and bedbugs, how they slept, washed, cooked, cleaned, scrimped for furniture and clothes and saved for the all too frequent burials.