The Christian Watt Papers : Memoirs of a Fraserburgh Fishwife
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Eland Classics
ISBN-10
178060212X
ISBN-13
9781780602127
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Imprint
Eland Publishing Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 5th, 2023
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
302 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 31.40 x 3.50 cms
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Caught between these covers is the authentic, forthright voice of Christian Watt, servant girl, lady?s maid and fishwife. Born in 1833, her working life began in domestic service before the age of nine and ended with her selling her husband?s catch from door to door. The tragic death of most of her close male family ? her husband, four brothers and her favorite child ? drowned by a sudden squall that sunk their boat, robbed her of her sanity. But cared for in the remarkable Cornhill Asylum in Aberdeen, a kindly doctor encouraged her to write her memoirs in pencil. In 1983 this bundle of papers, which included other family documents, was turned into a book by the historian David Fraser, and has been saluted as the Montaillou of Scotland.
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