As the Twig is Bent

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Taplinger Publishing Company, 1978 - Biography & Autobiography - 254 pages

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... front of the other ; eyes , don't look to left or right - cows can see each side as well as in front - oh ! I'm glad I'm not a cow . I've passed the chapel , I'm still safe , now if I can keep on to the bottom of the village , I shall ...
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... front door , and a longer flight of steps down to the area and the back door . Oh well , I was not a servant there yet . Still smarting from my ' telling - off ' at College Hall , and in militant mood , I rang the front door bell . The ...
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... front door . My own key of the door ! My own key of the front door ! I was just coming up to twenty- one , and now I really felt like it ! No hated caps and aprons ! Fifteen shillings a week , and all that time off ! A tree outside , as ...

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Contents

IO A Death
13
Partys Over
141
In the East
155
Copyright

6 other sections not shown

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About the author (1978)

Winifred Foley was born on July 25, 1914. She began working at the age of 14 as a maid in various households, as a kitchen maid at a ladies' college in London, as a domestic help at a bed-and-breakfast, and as a waitress. In the early 1970s, she sent a draft of her early life to the office of BBC radio's Woman's Hour. Meetings with the radio show led to a 1973 Woman's Hour serial followed by a book, A Child in the Forest, which was published in 1974 and became the first of the Forest Trilogy. At the age of 86, she began writing romance novels including Village Fates, Prejudice and Pride, To Kill for Love, and Two Men and a Maiden. She died on March 21, 2009 at the age of 90.

Bibliographic information

TitleAs the Twig is Bent
AuthorWinifred Foley
Editionreprint
PublisherTaplinger Publishing Company, 1978
ISBN080080421X, 9780800804213
Length254 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Biography & Autobiography / General
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
  
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