Memoirs of a hard-hearted daughter
Last year I found my mother's diaryof 1936 and her album. This evoked a web of memories.
Click on a picture for more of the story. You can also go through the story from the "California Baby" page.
My mother, I was told, was very beautiful.
She and my father were married in Kensington in 1935.
When my mother was a few months pregnant, they sailed to the USA for my father's orientation visit to the US company. I was born there.
My mother stayed with my godmother Theo, an artist. She wrote "I asked Theo if she would have Joanna in the event of .. war"
In England they moved into 'Third Sun House' in Amersham, where my sister Frankie was born in 1938, (Frances Emily)
They moved to Gerrards Cross. My mother's friend Eileen came
to stay and fell in love with my father. My mother left and there was a divorce.
A new phase in our lives started, and the days of my mother's photos and diary are finished.