Description

Yorkshire Art Circus, 1997. Soft cover, 180 pp. In very good condition. Sepia-toned pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. [From back cover] Even before she was at infants' school if someone asked her what she was going to do with her life, Gloria replied "I'm going to Oxford." This is the amazing story of how a slum child, with parents who thought education was wrong for women, gained an M. A. at Oxford University, courtesy of Leeds City Libraries. Gloria Yates writes frankly about the world she grew up in: stealing, back street abortions; sexuality, forbidden books, tram journeys by moonlight, even the Leeds Communist Party plays its part. Funny, touching and true, A Daughter of Leeds celebrates a great city and its people in the thirties and forties. Gloria Yates (1933 - 2008) was a poet, writer and editor, ex-teacher of English, ex-farmer, and founder of Micropress Yates, a poetry 'micromag' which became Micropress Oz. She had triple nationality - British, Israeli and Australian. She lived on various kibbutzim in Israel for 12 years and later moved to Petrie, Queensland.