KP/JK/4/2/2/3/2 - Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography, 'The Flame and the Flood'

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KP/JK/4/2/2/3/2

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Title

Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography, 'The Flame and the Flood'

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Manuscripts

Creator

Kenney, Jessie

Scope and content

Page 4 of typescript.
Jessie shares memories from her early childhood. “As a young girl I was a real Yorkist and the world to me consisted of ‘black and white’,” she writes. The “white” were her parents’ house (referred to as Whams House), the church, and the moors. Annie and Jessie loved the moors so dearly that Annie had her ashes scattered over them after her death. The “black” were the cotton factories in Lees, Springhead, and Oldham. She writes of the cotton mills as dark forces that “swallowed up” her older brothers and sisters.

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Existence and location of copies

A digital copy may be viewed at Suffragette Stories: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/122

KP - The Kenney Papers
- KP/JK - Jessie Kenney
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    - KP/JK/4/2 - 'The Flame and the Flood' (unpublished autobiography)
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        KP/JK/4/2/2/3/2 - Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography, 'The Flame and the Flood'

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