Barbara Caine recounts a powerful friendship between two working women in early 20th century Britain. Eva & Ruth found friendship in their shared love of books – in the words of George Eliot & Charlotte Brontë – but most importantly in each other, as they sought and struggled to create new and fuller lives.
Tag: Working class education
The first students at Ruskin College, Oxford
A photograph showing young men from the first class to enter Ruskin College, Oxford shows the social and political mix of students, and contains the seeds of disputes that would later appear among their ranks.