| Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1902 - 1012 pagine
...from the Matthewses, old Mrs. Collins lives in the almshouse. She has a great many stories to tell. Her parents died when she was a child, and she was brought up by an aunt. She used to work in the fields for fourpence a day, and often knew what it was to go dinnerless.... | |
| Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - 1902 - 592 pagine
...from the Matthewses, old Mrs. Collins lives in the almshouse. She has a great many stories to tell. Her parents died when she was a child, and she was brought up by an aunt. She used to work in the fields for fourpence a day, and often knew what it was to go dinnerless.... | |
| Agnes Baillie Cunninghame Dunbar - 1905 - 356 pagine
...Pesaro. Daughter of Guido Antonio, count or duke of Urbino and of Monte Feltre. She was christened SUEVA. Her parents died when she was a child, and she was brought up by the Colonna, her mother's relations at Rome; hence the supposition that she was born there of the Colonna... | |
| Massachusetts. Commission on Minimum Wage Boards - 1912 - 340 pagine
...facing life on $5 a week, and is terribly afraid of debt. She is intelligent and clever. Annie's mother died when she was a child and she was brought up by an older sister. Her father was a fireman and two brothers were also working, so they had a comfortable... | |
| John Harrington Cox - 1925 - 606 pagine
...Elizabeth Adams, daughter of Ann Hazlett and Jonathan Adams (English) of Massachusetts. Elizabeth's parents died when she was a child, and she was brought up by her aunt, Betsy Adams Home, Darby, Pennsylvania. Printed by Cox, XLIV, 428. What seems to be a similar... | |
| Kendall Taylor - 1987 - 284 pagine
...child of a Jewish railway contractor and a schoolteacher mother. Her father was killed by an explosion when she was a child, and she was brought up by her mother and an aunt. She had married the jeweler 1srael Potash, in Warsaw and emigrated with him to... | |
| Yu-ning Li - 1992 - 294 pagine
...was born Li Yun-ho in a poor family in the city of Chu-ch'eng, Shantung Province. Her brutal father died when she was a child, and she was brought up by her mother, who worked as a servant to put her through junior high school. Drawn to the glamour and fame... | |
| Richard Symonds - 1993 - 316 pagine
...visitor in Yarmouth shortly before Elizabeth Fry went into Newgate. Baptized in the Church of England, her parents died when she was a child and she was brought up by her grandmother, a glovemaker. In her autobiography she recalled how at the age of 12 she 'discovered an... | |
| Cathy Hartley - 2003 - 522 pagine
...Margaret (Emma Faith) (7-1967) Popular historical novelist. Margaret Irwin was born in London, but both her parents died when she was a child and she was brought up by an uncle, a master at Clifton, where she went to school. She read English at Oxford and published her... | |
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