Mrs N. Jones (b.~1900): Home & Family
While scrutinising the life writing of Mrs N Jones, it is evident that the Jones family, as an economic unit, operated in …
Jean Court: Life and Labour
‘All the ironing, washing up and pastry making were done on the wooden kitchen table, scrubbed every day until it was almost …
Elizabeth Rignall (B.1894): Home and Family
Mother, placid, imperturbable, accepting everything and turning immediately to cope with any disaster; Father “shot out of a gun end” as we …
Edna Bold (B.1904): Home & Family
“Edna Bold was born into a ‘respectable’ working-class family in Beswick, Manchester, in 1904, neither rich nor poor, but hard-working, somewhat narrow …