Blossom : riches to rags
Hutchinson, Peter2021
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A true story, set in industrial West Yorkshire, of a family’s roller-coaster fortunes from 1793 to 1935, passed down the generations by word of mouth to the author, focussing on the success, trials, and tribulations of his paternal grandmother, ‘Blossom’.A household servant gave birth to a bastard son. The father, Vicar of Halifax, Archdeacon of Craven, brother of the Archbishop of York, paid for his bastard son’s education, who obtained degrees of PhD and DSc, married into a wealthy family, and established a very successful chemist’s business in the boom times of the Victorian era. One of his granddaughters, Ellen Elizabeth Stott, whom he called Blossom, lived with him in his household and enjoyed the idyllic upbringing of a middle-class lady. Blossom inherited a considerable sum of money, established a confectionary business with her sister, and enjoyed substantial success, being one of the first women to hold a licence to sell wine. Then the sisters married, and all was downhill thereafter for Blossom.In Blossom’s turbulent married life, she lost five of her eight children, grappled with many setbacks, and descended into poverty.
Main title:
Blossom : riches to rags / Written by Peter Hutchinson
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Imprint:
United Kingdom : Peter Hutchinson, 2021
Collation:
367pp : Hardcover ; 261mm x 182mm x 27mm
ISBN:
9798759851097
Dewey class:
B STOB HUT
Language:
English
BRN:
535474