1. Introduction -- 2. Literacy, mothers and time -- 3. Registers of memory -- 4. Domestic reading and writing -- 5. Hide and seek: the search for illiteracy -- 6. Family is more than mum and literacy is more than school -- 7. Images and certificates: traces of a life -- App. 1. Mass Observation Directive No. 46, November 1995 - Part 2: Mothers and literacy in the early 1900s -- App. 2. Holy literacy
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index
