Rosa Bell (b.1902): Life and Labour
Rosa Bell’s memoir primarily focuses on the joyful times and wonderful people in the community she surrounded herself with. As Rosa moves …
Alice Pidgeon (b.1898): Life & Labour
The depression of the 1930’s, has great significance in Alice Pidgeon’s memoir. Orphaned at just six years of age, Alice and her …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Life and Labour (Part 2)
To tell you the truth I was beginning to feel tired.’ (10) Lilian Westall started working from fourteen years of age. …
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 …
Katherine Henderson (B.1908): Life and Labour
In the early 20th century work dominated working class people’s lives and many had little time for leisure and worked long and …