Life on the Home Front in Cornwall
Cover and excerpt from 'Letters from Lamledra, Cornwall 1914-1918'; cover and excerpt from correspondence between Marjorie and John Fischer Williams (plus pdf of collected images)
My maternal grandparents, Marjorie and John Fischer Williams, married in 1911. They built a house in Cornwall and with the outbreak of war, my grandmother carried on living there with their two daughters. My grandfather was a lawyer and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and as he was too old to join up, he worked in the Home Office in London. They corresponded daily and the letters from my grandmother, describing life on the home front, were published as 'Letters from Lamledra, Cornwall 1914-1918'; she ran the house, grew food and was also an artist. Both sets of letters have been deposited in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. After the war, my grandfather spent 10 years in Paris working with the Reparations Committee.
Marjorie Williams
This is a book of the letters written by my grandmother to my grandfather during the war, when he was working in London and she was living in their Cornish house, Lamledra (I edited the published volume).
Book
My grandmother's letters to my grandfather
CONTRIBUTOR
Cassandra Phillips
DATE
1911 - 1918
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
10
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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