Title: The cook's tale
Description: Nancy Jackman was born in 1907 in a remote Norfolk village. Her father was a ploughman, her mother a former servant who struggled to make ends meet in a small cottage. The pace of life in that long-vanished world was dictated by the slow, heavy tread of the farm horse and though Nancy's earliest memories were of green, sunny countryside still unspoiled by the motorcar, she also knew at first hand the harshness of a world where the elderly were forced to break stones on the roads and where school children were regularly beaten.
Subjects: Women cooks, Biography, Cooks, Women household employees, Household employees, Country life, History, Large type books, Social life and customs, Manners and customs
Places: England, Norfolk, Norfolk (England)
People: Nancy Jackman (1907-1989)
Time periods: 20th century