| Description | DOB: 1884
DOD: Unknown
She was the youngest of two children to her parents, who were married later in life.
She attended school at Horsham, and Chichester, up until the age of 14.
Married to her childhood sweetheart, with whom she had a son.
She was an apprentice for almost three years.
She started her dressmaking career through the recommendations of her initial employer, a General’s wife and their two daughters.
She had tried waitressing for a singular wedding.
She wrote about her first interaction with the telephone, and electricity.
She went into full extent regarding the individual jobs she had completed for many upper-class ladies.
Both the First World War and Second World War are mentioned, with the latter mostly halting her work as she had to look after elderly relatives.
She enjoyed the various environments she was exposed to, whilst travelling to fulfil her job.
This is a typed autobiography, with a few handwritten annotations, consisting of a total of 31 pages.
Dressmaking, [Travel], [Fabrics], [Loss] |