Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Literacy, mothers and time -- Registers of memory -- Domestic reading and writing -- Hide and seek : the search for illiteracy -- Family is more than mum and literacy is more than school -- Images and certificates: traces of a life -- Appendix 1: Mass Observation Directive No. 46, November 1995 -- Appendix 2: Holy literacy.