We’re always delighted in Special Collections to hear about how researchers have used our collections. So we were very pleased when Kristen den Hartog, who had used our Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, got in touch to say that the book written by her and Tracy Kasaboski, had already been published in Canada, and was due to be published in the UK in March 2019.
hThe Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the story of the descendants of a young cowkeeper and his wife who arrive in 1840s London, having walked there from the Welsh coast with their cattle. They are hoping to escape from poverty and find themselves plunged deeper into it. The books tells the story of those descendants moving in and out of slum housing, workhouses and asylums. Nearly a hundred years later, their 3 x great-granddaughters in Canada begins to piece together their story and the path they trod to Canada.
Congratulations to Tracy and Kristen on the publication of your book!
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