Description
Object description
Photocopy of ts account (128pp, written 1988 - 1991), vividly describing her experiences as a teenager, 1938 - 1945, including: her evacuation from the family home in Bromley, Kent to Bath (1938), Woking, Surrey (September 1939) and, with her mother and sister, to Canada (July 1940), giving details of the voyage across the North Atlantic on the SS MONARCH OF BERMUDA, her initial stay in Montreal, before moving to Toronto (September 1940), her education (principally at Branksome Hall School, Toronto), pastimes (much serious skating), social life, food, travel (including a trip to Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, with observations on racial segregation), and making interesting points about the stress of separation, family life, clothes and financial problems as an evacuee; her return to England (May 1944), life in Bromley, Esher in Surrey and London, especially during V1 and V2 raids, and her horror at the liberal conditions she witnessed at Dartington School, Devon during a visit there in 1944.
Content description
Photocopy of ts account (128pp, written 1988 - 1991), vividly describing her experiences as a teenager, 1938 - 1945, including: her evacuation from the family home in Bromley, Kent to Bath (1938), Woking, Surrey (September 1939) and, with her mother and sister, to Canada (July 1940), giving details of the voyage across the North Atlantic on the SS MONARCH OF BERMUDA, her initial stay in Montreal, before moving to Toronto (September 1940), her education (principally at Branksome Hall School, Toronto), pastimes (much serious skating), social life, food, travel (including a trip to Atlanta, Georgia in the United States, with observations on racial segregation), and making interesting points about the stress of separation, family life, clothes and financial problems as an evacuee; her return to England (May 1944), life in Bromley, Esher in Surrey and London, especially during V1 and V2 raids, and her horror at the liberal conditions she witnessed at Dartington School, Devon during a visit there in 1944.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1991-09