Where I Belong by Joyce Latham
Here, in a new edition of her first book, the late Joyce Latham looks back on her childhood days - the 1930s and the wartime years - in a way that will bring memories flooding back for readers of her generation. I many ways hers was a typical Forest upbringing - one in which poverty was softened by the warm and close-knit support of friends and relatives, but in other ways her life was anything but ordinary, and some remarkable reminiscences are woven in among her accounts of everyday events. Joyce was born in Westbury workhouse, the lovechild of a servant girl - and if she had not been rescued by her grandmother, the beloved Mam who dominates these pages, her life story would have been very different. Here, too, are tales of crossing the frozen Wye on foot at Symonds Yat, of an outstanding bid by her schoolteachers to adopt Joyce, her first hurtful taste of prejudice against people of her background, and an old uncle's first-hand tale of the Union Pit disaster of 1902, a tragedy that left its mark on the Forest for decades. You will find many of Joyce Latham's verses in this book too, but most of all you will gain new insights into her perspective way of looking at the world, and find your own love for the Forest of Dean enriched and stimulated by hers.
'It attacks all the problems which have gathered around Arthur and the Grail legend, and makes what is perhaps the first coherant and cogent narrative out of the whole tangle' OBSERVER'Geoffrey Ashe is a shaker of establishment archaeology and ancient history and as such does scholars a good service' GLYN DANIEL'Crisp, imaginative and contemporary.. a book that will madden the academic historian and delight the common reader
The late Joyce Latham was well known in the Forest of Dean for herverses, which often appeared in local newspapers and have been published in two collections - Puzzle Wood and other poems and Poemsof a Forester.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750948852 |
| ISBN 10 | 075094885X |
| Title | Where I Belong |
| Author | Joyce Latham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The History Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 125 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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