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Mother Knew Best: An East End Childhood (firecrest Books) by Dorothy Scannell is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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'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 grew up with nine brothers and sisters, her father - a plumber who believed that 'all aristocratic men were disease-ridden and possessed bald-headed wives because of the rich food and wine they consumed' - and of course Mother, who
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dorothy Scannell
- Publisher
- Electric Power Storage
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780859979337
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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