by Ruth A. Symes [After a family visit this summer to Gawthorpe Hall, home of Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth featured here, I was reminded of my article published in Who Do You Think you Are? Magazine (2013)] Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Woman Sewing By Window (1871), by Vincent Van... Continue Reading →
The Governess: An Anthology
Ruth A. Symes and Trev Broughton (eds), The Governess: An Anthology, Sutton Press, 1997. Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update
‘Dollar Princesses’: What Our UK Ancestors Made of American Women
By Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update Publishing this today in honour of the 250th anniversary of American Independence! [This article was originally published in Discover Your Ancestors in January 2019] The Dollar Princess: Miss Gabrielle Ray (1883-1973) as Daisy in the Edwardian musical comedy ‘The Dollar... Continue Reading →