Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #2
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Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #2
Subject
Childhood and youth
World War, 1914-1918
Description
Excerpt from Jessie Kenney’s unpublished autobiography, “The Flame and the Flood”.
In this excerpt Jessie shares memories from her childhood. She remembers her family procuring a piano which brought them great joy. Jessie writes that music was one of the “greatest delights” of her life. “We loved the Scottish ballads, the Irish songs, and Welsh ballads and sang them.” The Kenney family would go to Hey church, where they had a pew, and join in hymn singing often. She recalls singing Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide hymns which brought her great joy. “Little did we realise then,” she writes, “in the great simplicity of our lives, in its yearnings, its hard work, its passionate love of justice and … and its love of the Natural beauty which we adored in the moors of the future battles we should be engaged in.” Here she thinks of her brother Bert, was “blocked, for nearly four years on the Western front [during WWI], with only fifteen days spent with his wife and three boys.”
In this excerpt Jessie shares memories from her childhood. She remembers her family procuring a piano which brought them great joy. Jessie writes that music was one of the “greatest delights” of her life. “We loved the Scottish ballads, the Irish songs, and Welsh ballads and sang them.” The Kenney family would go to Hey church, where they had a pew, and join in hymn singing often. She recalls singing Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide hymns which brought her great joy. “Little did we realise then,” she writes, “in the great simplicity of our lives, in its yearnings, its hard work, its passionate love of justice and … and its love of the Natural beauty which we adored in the moors of the future battles we should be engaged in.” Here she thinks of her brother Bert, was “blocked, for nearly four years on the Western front [during WWI], with only fifteen days spent with his wife and three boys.”
Creator
Kenney, Jessie
Source
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Date
1964-66
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)
Identifier
KP/JK/4/2/2/3
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Citation
Kenney, Jessie, “Excerpt from Jessie Kenney's unpublished autobiography #2,” Suffragette Stories, accessed May 18, 2021, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/57.