Minnie Frisby (b. 1877): Life and Labour
Alongside childhood, working life and labour is a significant theme in Memories. After discovering Minnie’s maiden name through her marriage on Ancestry …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Life and Labour (Part 1.)
‘Shortly after leaving the grammar school my mother apprenticed me to the dressmaking trade with a local dressmaker’ (8) Many of the …
Averil Edith Thomas: Life Writing, Class and Identity
‘… pinafores however must have been only for the “lower class”‘ (21) Averil Edith Thomas was very aware of her position in …
Emily Gertrude Lea (1902-1976): Life & Labour
“…her remark when she said “The working classes were a lazy lot” used to make me furious for, if people “work” how …