Description
Object description
Volume, produced in 2001, containing copies of an extensive series of detailed ms letters (and accompanying photographs) sent to her parents in Sanderstead, Surry, during her evacuation as a teenager to Canada (July 1940 - May 1943), and describing in some detail her passage on the DUCHESS OF ATHOLL, her feelings towards her two foster families, her impressions of Toronto and her attendance at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, commenting in particular on differences in dress, standards of schooling, food and drink and social life, mentioning various summer holiday activities including a Guide camp, a 'War Guest' camp at Sundridge, Ontario (1941) and fruit picking as a 'farmerette' in the Niagara area (1942), her part time job delivering telegrams (autumn 1942), and including comments on the progress of the war, her desire for news from home, which was exacerbated by press reports of the bombing of London (her parents lived in Croydon) and the infrequency of mail, and repeatedly expressing her desire to return home, finally getting her parents' agreement and returning on the EMPIRE MARINER in May 1943. Together with further letters to her parents sent from Llandilo in Wales where she was evacuated in order to sit her final school exams (June - July 1944) and while staying with friends in Leeds (August 1944). The letters are accompanied by an introduction, a commentary which expands on events in her evacuation not explicit from the letters, most notably her first foster father's sexual advances to her which prompted her to arrange a move to another foster family, an account of her return home and readjustment to family life in the United Kingdom, her continued studies at Croydon High School (June 1943 - July 1944), and at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (October 1944 - ? 1947), and her reflections on the long term effects of her evacuation experiences. An updated version of this volume, produced in 2011, can be found on the website www.2ndwwevac.co.uk
Content description
Volume, produced in 2001, containing copies of an extensive series of detailed ms letters (and accompanying photographs) sent to her parents in Sanderstead, Surry, during her evacuation as a teenager to Canada (July 1940 - May 1943), and describing in some detail her passage on the DUCHESS OF ATHOLL, her feelings towards her two foster families, her impressions of Toronto and her attendance at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, commenting in particular on differences in dress, standards of schooling, food and drink and social life, mentioning various summer holiday activities including a Guide camp, a 'War Guest' camp at Sundridge, Ontario (1941) and fruit picking as a 'farmerette' in the Niagara area (1942), her part time job delivering telegrams (autumn 1942), and including comments on the progress of the war, her desire for news from home, which was exacerbated by press reports of the bombing of London (her parents lived in Croydon) and the infrequency of mail, and repeatedly expressing her desire to return home, finally getting her parents' agreement and returning on the EMPIRE MARINER in May 1943. Together with further letters to her parents sent from Llandilo in Wales where she was evacuated in order to sit her final school exams (June - July 1944) and while staying with friends in Leeds (August 1944). The letters are accompanied by an introduction, a commentary which expands on events in her evacuation not explicit from the letters, most notably her first foster father's sexual advances to her which prompted her to arrange a move to another foster family, an account of her return home and readjustment to family life in the United Kingdom, her continued studies at Croydon High School (June 1943 - July 1944), and at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine (October 1944 - ? 1947), and her reflections on the long term effects of her evacuation experiences. An updated version of this volume, produced in 2011, can be found on the website www.2ndwwevac.co.uk
History note
Cataloguer AAM
History note
Catalogue date 2001-12-04