Why is shoemaking alone called ‘the gentle craft’? Winks begins with the legends of Saints Crispin and Crispianus, then gathers the lives of cobblers who became preachers, poets, scholars, missionaries and philanthropists across Asia, Africa, Europe and America, among them John Pounds, the shoemaker whose free teaching of poor children inspired the Ragged School movement.
A warm Victorian collective biography for anyone who likes seeing ordinary workers rise to remarkable lives. Download the free EPUB.