Description
Object description
Ts memoirs (ca 580pp in 3 volumes) covering: her early life in Newmarket and London, 1896 - 1919, with details of her career as a shorthand typist, also of her post as reader to Sir Arthur Pearson (founder of St Dunstan's) and war work (which included membership of the Women's Volunteer Reserve) as well as employment in Australia, 1919 - 1923, and the United Kingdom, 1923 - 1925, principally with the Commonwealth Migration and Settlement Department and the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women (which entailed duties at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924); her career in the Merchant Navy as a conductress and stewardess, 1925 - 1931 and 1934 - 1939, working initially with emigrants to Canada and later on luxury liners; her war work in England with the Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) in 1940 as a welfare officer in Central London and later with the National Service Hostels Corporation, as well as details of her postwar career which included employment at Fortnum and Mason's department store in the 1950s, together with a photograph of her.
Content description
Ts memoirs (ca 580pp in 3 volumes) covering: her early life in Newmarket and London, 1896 - 1919, with details of her career as a shorthand typist, also of her post as reader to Sir Arthur Pearson (founder of St Dunstan's) and war work (which included membership of the Women's Volunteer Reserve) as well as employment in Australia, 1919 - 1923, and the United Kingdom, 1923 - 1925, principally with the Commonwealth Migration and Settlement Department and the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women (which entailed duties at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924); her career in the Merchant Navy as a conductress and stewardess, 1925 - 1931 and 1934 - 1939, working initially with emigrants to Canada and later on luxury liners; her war work in England with the Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) in 1940 as a welfare officer in Central London and later with the National Service Hostels Corporation, as well as details of her postwar career which included employment at Fortnum and Mason's department store in the 1950s, together with a photograph of her.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1989