Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #5
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Title
Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #5
Subject
Working class families
Description
Excerpt from Jessie Kenney’s unpublished autobiography, “The Flame and the Flood.”
In this excerpt, Jessie shares memories from her early childhood. “As a young girl I was a real Yorkist and the world to me consisted of ‘black and white’,” she writes. The “white” were her parents’ house (referred to as Whams House), the church, and the moors. Annie and Jessie loved the moors so dearly that Annie had her ashes scattered over them after her death. The “black” were the cotton factories in Lees, Springhead, and Oldham. She writes of the cotton mills as dark forces that “swallowed up” her older brothers and sisters.
In this excerpt, Jessie shares memories from her early childhood. “As a young girl I was a real Yorkist and the world to me consisted of ‘black and white’,” she writes. The “white” were her parents’ house (referred to as Whams House), the church, and the moors. Annie and Jessie loved the moors so dearly that Annie had her ashes scattered over them after her death. The “black” were the cotton factories in Lees, Springhead, and Oldham. She writes of the cotton mills as dark forces that “swallowed up” her older brothers and sisters.
Creator
Kenney, Jessie
Source
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Publisher
Unknown
Rights
Copyright: Estate of Jessie Kenney. All rights reserved. Included here by kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families.
Format
jpeg image file
Language
English (United Kingdom)
Type
Identifier
KP/JK/4/2/2/3
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Original Format
Paper
Transcription
Annie and Jessie Kenney
Collection
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Citation
Kenney, Jessie, “Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #5,” Suffragette Stories, accessed November 10, 2025, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/122.