Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle Broome’s love of animals shines through many of her letters. This post is one of a series looking at the animals…
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the last in a series looking at clothing. This one focuses on Myrtle’s sewing, initially mostly for mending, but…
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the second of four relating to water. The first in the series focused on personal washing arrangements. This second…
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of a series about Myrtle Broome’s experience of learning Arabic. This post looks at her earliest experiences…
Author: Susan Biddle. The last post described Myrtle’s voyage from the UK to Marseilles, via Gibraltar, in 1929. There she was joined by two more…