Download or read book A Ragged Schooling written by Robert Roberts and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this autobiography, the author evokes his Edwardian childhood in his portrait of a vanished community as he tells how he and the other children of Salford struggled daily to survive the poverty that surrounded them.