My spring
Subtitle: royal times and ordinary lives
By: Jean A. Stockdale
Publisher: Matador
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9781780884813; 9781780886480
Subjects: Family; Women; Biography; Social life and customs; Families; Manners and customs
Description: An aristocratic lady and a girl from Sheffield are born into large families at the height of the British Empire, where grand houses had elephant foot stools, cutlery with ivory handles, tiger skin rugs and Imperial Leather soap. In the north, horse and carts with 'rag and bone' men shout, "Any old irons." The northern girl wears 'hand me down' clothes and lives in a 'two up, two down', back to back house. The lady wears fine clothes and lives in grand homes. Both women experience turmoil and sadness in the First World War, and they both marry in 1923. This book is about the parallel life stories of an extraordinary Royal lady and an ordinary woman as they go through life changing upheavals and the fear of a second World War. They both have daughters in the same year - one was destined to be Queen and the other was to become the author's mother.
Notes: Also issued online.