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Edna’s Story Item Info
- Title:
- Edna’s Story
- Description:
- Edna Wheway's autobiography tells of how after her father's death in 1906, she went to live at The Church of England Waifs and Strays Society, St. Faith's home. At the age of 16, she began working as a "between-maid" and later moved to London to be a kitchen-maid for a titled family in Chelsea. She was married in 1927, had two children, and then moved to Southampton after her husband's death, where she worked for W.H. Smith. Wheway was a founding memory of the New Milton Community Centre writing group and wrote for the Natural History society. Other topics include her interest in cooking, her time as an inmate of Fever Hospital at Alderney when she had scarlet fever, daily life at "The Home," and everyday experience as a maid.
- Publisher:
- Word and Action (Dorset) LTD
- Creator:
- Edna Wheway
- Contributor:
- Gillian Hall John Palmer Martin Pearce Ruth Hecht
- Date:
- 1984
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Subjects:
- Childhood growing up memoir war leisure memory England social life and customs 20th century maid domestic
- Latitude:
- 50.7951892840741
- Longitude:
- -1.97753834431309
- Location:
- Wimborne, Dorset
- Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 0904939316
- Is a Part of:
- Trades Union Congress Library Collections, FWWCP Collection, Region 6 Southwest, Box 2
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Edna’s Story", Digital Collections, FWWCP
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/fwwcp/items/fwwcp06sw02047.html