Social Stations
Susannah Clapp, 1 October 1981
Edwardian Childhoods
by Thea Thompson.
Routledge, 232 pp., £9.75, February 1981,0 7100 0676 4 Show More
by Thea Thompson.
Routledge, 232 pp., £9.75, February 1981,
“... mother who was ‘a beautiful washer’ and who stitched ‘HRH’ on Princess Mary’s stockings. Geoffrey Brady, who read Wells and loved bicycling, remembers the collapse of his father’s business, which led to his leaving school at 14 – ‘off to Manchester in a hard bowler hat and a little grey suit’. From Esther Stokes there are memories of jigging ... ”