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From Workhouse to Prison to ………. the Titanic ?
£11.15
The true story of Titanic survivor Nurse Alice Cleaver told by her daughter which contests the terrible allegations made against the character and actions of Nurse Cleaver in previous books on the Titanic disaster.
Combining emotion with logical discussion and revealing hitherto unpublished compelling evidence this book sheds new light on the Titanic disaster and on the social history of the times.
Includes photos, a map and facsimiles of original documents.
Description
“A daughter’s search for the truth in the face of terrible allegations surrounding her mother (a Titanic survivor). The background to this has been described as a horrific story – the book itself as fascinating.
As From Workhouse to Prison progresses the emphasis shifts from the daughter’s feelings as she commences her research at the Public Record Office, intent on clearing her mother’s name, to the story of the early life and wanderings about London of a young woman in the years leading up to the Titanic tragedy, at the time of the Titanic and thereafter. Then back again to the present time and the author’s quest.
The reader is kept fully involved by the combination of emotion and logical discussion as the main criminal charge and myriad of other allegations against the author’s mother are investigated, using archives and libraries in and around London, drawing on contemporary official documents and period newspapers, many of which are reproduced here for the first time.
As the book reaches its conclusion the reader is left in little doubt as to how much the Titanic tragedy itself and the more recent dreadful allegations have impacted on those involved.” — Author’s Synopsis
Encyclopedia Titanica Review
This curious book, believed to have been written by one of Alice Cleaver’s daughters under a pseudonym, is essentially a long rebuttal of the erroneous claim that Miss Cleaver had at one time been convicted of the murder of her child. While this deals in detail with the story of the Alice Cleaver who wasn’t on the Titanic it tells the reader nothing about the Alice Cleaver who was. So while an understandable exercise in catharsis for an aggrieved family, it is of limited interest to the Titanic researcher. — Encyclopedia Titanica
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| Publisher | Dinah Burnett (27 April 2000) |
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| Paperback | 128 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0953728803 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0953728800 |
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