Dorothy Scannell: 3 books
Mother Knew Best
Memoirs of a London Girlhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
‘Cheer up,’ said Mother. ‘Don’t make your unhappy life miserable.’
Before Jennifer Worth and other East End memoirists, there was Dorothy ‘Dolly’ Scannell.
In the East End of Dolly’s childhood, people met poverty and hardship with unfailing optimism and humour. Dolly...
Dolly's War
A Memoir from the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
*On a narrow wooden armchair-bed was lying our hostess. Her nightdress was up round her neck. The organist, on his knees, in the nude, was deep in prayer, his face bent in reverence over his bride’s prostrate form.
Ever so slowly the organist raised his horrified eyes to ours. My sister,...
Dolly's Mixture
A Memoir of London's East End
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
The Guild’s guest speaker told us of his great joy when, walking one day, he espied a lady who possessed an unusual knocker. He offered her £3 for this collector’s item and she was thrilled to be able to unscrew it on the spot for him. He said he happily left a knockerless lady holding in her...