"My Adventures" by My Mother

Added by Christine Wilshaw

Located under Letters & documents

Story behind the treasure: At the age 15 my mother came to England from Vienna on the Kinder Train. Within a year she had learned enough english to write a brief account of her experiences of this time which she illustrated with a number of attractive brightly coloured cartoons. The book was never completed as she married my father and had two babies. Trajically she died at the age of 27 when I was 9 years old.

You can see this treasure on display at Sizergh Castle and Garden from March-September 2010.