Marion Owen (b. 1909): Life and Labour
Marion felt extremely unprepared for life outside of education as she felt her artistic talents were all she had to offer. However, …
Lilian Westall (born 1893): Life and Labour (Part 1)
Figure 1 Household Maids for a London Family in the early 20th Century Throughout Westall’s memoir, work is a main theme …
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 …
Kathleen Hilton-Foord (1903-1908): Life & Labour
Changing policies in the early twentieth century with regard to compulsory education, such as The 1902 Balfour Education Act, meant that unlike children …