Edith France - An Extraordinary Woman

By Ron Taylor

Edith France - Her life and legacy was shaped by two world wars and an enormous capacity for love and justice. It is a story of adversity and of success against the odds. Her legacy lives on through her descendants in whom her influence, qualities continues to shine.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781326931674

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Edith France - An Extraordinary Woman

Edith France - An Extraordinary Woman

This is the story of the life and times of Edith France, an extraordinary woman. Like all extraordinary women, she would have said that she was an ordinary woman. When you read of her life and legacy you will surely agree that she truly was; An Extraordinary Woman.

Her life and legacy were shaped by two world wars and her enormous capacity for love. It is as true an account of her life as possible of a private person who lived in the present and future spending little time recalling her past to others. A woman who sought justice for all and dedicated her skills and energies towards protecting, inspiring and encouraging her family. Those she loved.

Copyright

I assert that this is my writing and should only be copied or reproduced with my express permission.

The text is created from my own memories I have not copied or otherwise included any text, concepts or ideas written by any others. Historic information has been checked using reference books and the internet but none of the information has been copied from any other source material.

I assert this book contains only my own experience, knowledge or imagination. If anyone feels I have, in anyway, reproduced their information, or misrepresented them in any way I will consider their views and could change my text in any future edition.

Some photographs are copyright of English Heritage and are marked as such; others are of general release or are images in the ownership of the Taylor family.

None of the information within this book is guaranteed as 100% accurate although due care has been taken to ensure only known facts and true information has been used.

Ron Taylor

Dedication

To my Grandchildren Hannah, Thomas, Matilda and Archie.

Chapter One July 1921 Salford

Edith France was born on the 5th July 1921, to Ellen and William France, in Salford in the North West of England. She was to join her elder sister, also named Ellen, in the France family rented room in the overcrowded damp flats overlooking a polluted and smelly canal. It has to be said that Salford in the nineteen twenties was an unfortunate place to enter this world.

Salford was a very depressed and deprived place then. A mill town, surrounded by mill towns, those mills, at one time busy and a central cog of the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th Centuries were now struggling for survival.

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