Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Dorothy Cowlin's new novel gives a striking account of a Lancashire elementary school teacher's experiences in a poor industrial area during the nineteen-thirties and forties. Barbara Neave, a young woman of working-class origin, has climbed the scholarship ladder to university level, and enters the teaching profession at the time of a 'glut' of qualified teachers. She is obliged to accept a job in a small Elementary Church School. The descriptions of her slow apprenticeship - disheartening, tiring, occasionally comic or rewarding - have the sureness of personal knowledge. Side by side with these runs the story of her personal life, and in this Dorothy Cowlin shows again that vividness and honesty which distinguishes so much of her writing."@en }
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- Dorothy_Cowlin text "Dorothy Cowlin's new novel gives a striking account of a Lancashire elementary school teacher's experiences in a poor industrial area during the nineteen-thirties and forties. Barbara Neave, a young woman of working-class origin, has climbed the scholarship ladder to university level, and enters the teaching profession at the time of a 'glut' of qualified teachers. She is obliged to accept a job in a small Elementary Church School. The descriptions of her slow apprenticeship - disheartening, tiring, occasionally comic or rewarding - have the sureness of personal knowledge. Side by side with these runs the story of her personal life, and in this Dorothy Cowlin shows again that vividness and honesty which distinguishes so much of her writing.".