Rianne Shelley

Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Biographical Entry

832 WILLIAMS, Edith A., Untitled, TS, pp.39 + 3pp. chapter summary (c.11,700 words). BruneI University Library. Born Nov 1899 in Merthyr Tydfil. …

‘I was no genius, but I seemed to have more than average intelligence.’ (5) Edith dedicates large portions of her memoir to …

My work focused on the untitled memoir of Edith Annie Williams, born November 1899 in Merthyr Tydfil. Then a mining village, Merthyr …

‘I recall an early occasion of telling my father of our being given the choice of learning a foreign language & that …

‘One of my most treasured photographs of that lovely day is that of my dear grandmother, sitting at the wedding breakfast table, …

‘If I have a message at all it is that one should accept life’s challenges, no matter what form they take: the …

‘…having been seen on the public platform, I became known to a wider circle of men & women in public life who …

‘Shortly after leaving the grammar school my mother apprenticed me to the dressmaking trade with a local dressmaker’ (8) Many of the …

‘It was the time of the amassing of Hitler’s troops on the borders of Austria. This previously happy country was now in …