Description
Object description
156 ms letters (337pp) to her husband Ben (September 1939 - December 1945) from her home in Gateshead, both before and after their wartime marriage in 1941, mostly covering their turbulent and passionate romance but also containing details of her evacuation as a teacher with a school to Bishop Auckland, Durham (September 1939 - early 1940) and to Thirsk, North Yorkshire (summer 1940) with comments on billets for the teachers, the inadequate accommodation for the teaching of the children, the rapid return of the evacuees to Tyneside, and the heavy workload of the teachers both in and out of school hours; also her concerns for him following his call-up to the army (early 1940); their decision to marry in wartime and the uncertain prospects facing them (early 1941); the pressures of rearing a young son alone (1945) and her contemplation of the difficulties of living finally as man and wife on his return at the end of the war (July 1945).
Content description
156 ms letters (337pp) to her husband Ben (September 1939 - December 1945) from her home in Gateshead, both before and after their wartime marriage in 1941, mostly covering their turbulent and passionate romance but also containing details of her evacuation as a teacher with a school to Bishop Auckland, Durham (September 1939 - early 1940) and to Thirsk, North Yorkshire (summer 1940) with comments on billets for the teachers, the inadequate accommodation for the teaching of the children, the rapid return of the evacuees to Tyneside, and the heavy workload of the teachers both in and out of school hours; also her concerns for him following his call-up to the army (early 1940); their decision to marry in wartime and the uncertain prospects facing them (early 1941); the pressures of rearing a young son alone (1945) and her contemplation of the difficulties of living finally as man and wife on his return at the end of the war (July 1945).
History note
Cataloguer PJG
History note
Catalogue date 1995-10-26