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Jean Court: Home and Family (Part 1)

‘Then father had a stroke on hot summer day whilst painting the outside of a house and died; exactly on my fourth …

Within Jean’s memoir, she is consistent in describing all the fun and festivities in which she and her family had and attended. …

Jean’s mother seems to work hard throughout her childhood in the 1920s to provide a consistently clean home and daily meals. ‘All …

‘Mary my sister was a dainty neat child but I was just the opposite, a real scruff.’ (‘Living in the Lane’, p. …

‘All the ironing, washing up and pastry making were done on the wooden kitchen table, scrubbed every day until it was almost …

When I originally chose Writing Lives for one of my final year modules, I had no idea what to expect. Initially, I …

Within Jean’s memoir, she often speaks of church. Her mother ‘always attended St. Mary Redcliffe and would slip out of the house …

Harry West’s main ambition in life was to be educated, however at the age of 14 he was forced to leave school …