Roses and Rainbows

Description

Not sure if this book fits under the heading of 'history' but the topic covers growing up in County Antrim and the life in the Northern Irish countryside. The Foreword was written by J C Beckett, a Professor of Irish History. Mary, the little girl who first won the hearts of readers in Other Days Around Me, is growing up. Now fifteen and an orphan, she is starting her first job as a Monitress, that strange hybrid teacher-pupil so essential to the educational system of the time. With characteristic perception and irony she brings to life the joys and sorrows of a country family in the reign of Edward VII.