Ken Hayter (b. 1940): Illness & Health
‘I’m getting inoculated against dip- dip something or other, dip- dip- diphtheria, that’s it. Diphtheria’ (102) The above quotation is taken from …
May Jones: Illness, Health and Disability
“Misses let her go home,” if she lives she will be either a cripple or an imbecile,” Mother said I believe that …
Frank George Marling (1863-1954): Illness, Health and Disability
[…] I was rather a delicate child. It must have been when I was not very well that one morning before I …
Norah Elliott (b.1903): Illness, Health & Disability
Much of Norah’s memoir discusses illness, both physical and mental. Norah’s ancestors, her siblings and Norah herself suffered with illness and disability. Norah …
Jack Goring (1861-1942): An Introduction
‘Life appears to me to be like an escalator but in the form of a switchback it has its ups and downs, …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): Home and Family
‘That we were all and always very poor is most certain but I am equally certain that as children we did not …