Author: GEORGE, ETHEL. (WITH CAROLE AND MICHAEL BLACKWELL).
Title: The Seventeenth Child. Memories of a Norwich Childhood 1914-1934.
Description: Dereham: Larks Press, 2010. 1904006302. Rep. Ethel George's memories were recorded on tape in the 1970s, after Carole and Michael Blackwell met her during their time at UEA. "Ethel George was born in Norwich in 1914, the youngest of 17 children. She grew up in Vavalry Street in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods..She remembers the bad times, fights and drunkenness in the 'yards' nearby, illness and injury and other dangers. But she also records, in her uncompromising Norwich dialect, the good times, street games, Christmas treats, and the annual trip to Yarmouth." Pp.208, occasional black & white photographs. Paperback. VG.

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