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From Far As I Can
Remember
Minnie Rose decided to leave her home
near Hockwold,
in Norfolk, England
when she was
eleven years old. The
paragraph below describes one of the
reasons:
hauling water from River Little
Ouse
(above) to do washing for a family of
nineteen children.
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"And then it was my
job after breakfast to go out there and start fishing out the diapers, and
then washing off all the
soil, and then washing all them diapers, and then bringing them in for Stepmother to finish them off. But she didn’t want them
in all soiled, so I had to stay out there and wash them, and
the water was pretty cold in winter. When it was icy they froze over, you know. But I still had to, and my
hands was bleeding
on the back. But it didn’t matter how cold the water
was. That was my job."
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- Far
As I Can Remember: An Immigrant Woman's Story,
- 1888-1975,
by Minnie Rose Lovgreen
- (also
author of Recipe for Raising Chickens)
- Tape-recorded
and transcribed by Nancy Rekow
- Edited
by Nancy Rekow and Everett Thompson
- 6"
x 9", paperback, perfect bound, matte lamination
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