Christian Watt Papers - Couverture souple

Watt, Christian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 086228077X ISBN 13 : 9780862280772

Editeur : Imprint unknown, 1983

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At the age of forty-seven Christian Watt began to write down recollections of her life; she continued until her death at the age of ninety in 1923. Hers is a remarkable story, vividly told with a natural narrative gift. Christian was born into a Fraserburgh fishing family, and spent much of her life gutting and selling fish, and, for a time, working in domestic service, first to the Duchess of Leeds and subsequently travelling to New York to serve as tablemaid to Winston Churchill's grandmother. Hers was a life of constant toil and hardship. The sea brought her family a precarious living and often a violent death - four of her seven brothers, her husband and her favourite son all died at sea. Anxiety and grief eventually led to mental breakdown, and Christian spent the last forty years of her life as a patient in the Cornhill Infirmary. Her treatment there was enlightened and humane; she continued to work and travel and it was there that she wrote, drawing on her vivid memory. Her writings offer a vivid insight into life in the North-east of Scotland during the middle and later part of the nineteenth century, and into the twentieth.

Biographie de l'auteur

General Sir David Fraser was one of Britain's most senior generals. He has written biographies of Lord Alanbrooke, William Douglas Home and Frederick the Great. He also wrote And We Shall Shock Them, a history of the British army during the Second World War. He lives in Hampshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Imprint unknown
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 086228077X
• ISBN 13: 9780862280772
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Éditeur: Fraser Sir David
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