Letters from Percy Widdrington to Enid Stacy
TitleLetters from Percy Widdrington to Enid Stacy
ReferenceTAPE/045
Date
30TH JUNE 1897 ONWARDS
Scope and ContentExtracts from letters from Percy Widdrington to Enid Stacy. These extracts are quite short, and on one side of the tape only.
The letters were written in the period 1897 (just after they were married) to 1900, mostly when she was away on lecture tours. He wrote to her at Bolton (where she stayed in a temperance hotel which she did not like), to Manchester, (where she stayed with his parents) to Bristol, and just before she went on an American tour. He wrote about his mother, about the lack of money, his problems with preparing a lecture about Ruskin, and worrying about her health (perhaps when she was pregnant). There is a more detailed quotation about why they should get domestic help, so that she had the time for reading and lecturing. He also discouraged what appeared to be a wish on her part to have children. There is also a reference to the Boer War.
There are pamphlets by both Enid Stacy and Percy Widdrington, and other material, in the Working Class Movement Library.
Angela Tuckett probably made this recording as part of her research into the life of her aunt, Enid Stacy, when preparing to write her biography.
The letters were written in the period 1897 (just after they were married) to 1900, mostly when she was away on lecture tours. He wrote to her at Bolton (where she stayed in a temperance hotel which she did not like), to Manchester, (where she stayed with his parents) to Bristol, and just before she went on an American tour. He wrote about his mother, about the lack of money, his problems with preparing a lecture about Ruskin, and worrying about her health (perhaps when she was pregnant). There is a more detailed quotation about why they should get domestic help, so that she had the time for reading and lecturing. He also discouraged what appeared to be a wish on her part to have children. There is also a reference to the Boer War.
There are pamphlets by both Enid Stacy and Percy Widdrington, and other material, in the Working Class Movement Library.
Angela Tuckett probably made this recording as part of her research into the life of her aunt, Enid Stacy, when preparing to write her biography.
Extent1 cassette tape
Physical descriptionNWSA copy
LanguageEnglish
Persons keywordStacy, Enid, Widdrington, Percy, Tuckett, Angela
SubjectEssays and letters, Family
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationZ (Room 24)