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 …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Illness, Health and Disability ‘So there again mother got the first folding invalid chair’ (21) Mary’s memoir recalls how her parents faced illness and disability throughout …
Jean Court: Illness, Health and Disability Within Jean Court’s memoir, health and illness are two main themes. She speaks of her family’s brushes with death as well as …
Anthony Errington (1778-1848): Illness, Health and Disability “As in developing countries today, children in large families with poor living conditions and inadequate nutrition, would have been at high risk …
Mrs RM Downer (b.1884): Illness, Health and Disability Illness is not an issue discussed in the earlier pages of RM Downer’s memoir. However, when the topic is introduced in the …
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 …
Dora R. Hannan (1909-2001): Illness, Health & Disability “Both my parents were very compassionate people, sometimes when one of us lay awake softly grizzling to ourselves with toothache in the …
Mary Bradbury (b. circa 1900): Illness, Health and Disability For all the hard labour endured, and all the great memories Mary reminisces on, she experienced health problems when she was a …
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 …
Doris Hunt (1900): Illness, Health and Disability The prospect of illness was not uncommon within the Hunt household. It inevitably ended in tragedy. The first instance was when Doris and …
