Author: CONQUEST Joan
Title: The Naked Truth. Shocking Revelations about the Slums by an ex-Nursing Sister.
Description: London, Werner Laurie, 1933. 158pp. 19x13, red cloth Good in publisher's cloth. Newspaper cutting of author pasted on fep. Autobiographical account of London slum conditions. The author was probably best known as a writer of fiction, but in this account she delivers a searing indictment of society's toleration of the appalling living conditions of the poor, and the resulting ill-health, criminality and suffering. She is particularly graphic about the sexual abuse of children that was the result of adults sharing their beds, in terms that are stunning now, let alone then. Her anger burns from the page.

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