Becki reviewed on 9/1/2013

Down the Common is a story of the common lives of the poor during a time when life courses were determined according to the family and social strata one was was born into. This story is told through the eyes of Marion, a woman with no extraordinary ability except perhaps to take in and appreciate the world around her.

It was a life that see-sawed between times of hard labor and mind-numbing idleness. Both extremes illustrating how hard life was. While the reader gets a view of life from the eyes of a common woman, one also gets a glimpse into the life of the gentry and sees that they, too, had their own struggles.

You will definitely gain new appreciation for modern inventions while reading this book - things like electricty, plumbing, refrigeration, penicillin...

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