Bradley, Helen - Miss Carter Came With Us (1973)

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Scenes from an Edwardian Childhood

London, London; Jonathan Cape, 2rd edition, 1973

Hardcover, cloth, title in gold on front board and spine, with very firm waxpaper dust jacket
Oblong ( 11,7 x 10,5 tall)
31 Pages

No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very clear gilt lettering to front and spine and a very good dustjacket

In Miss Carter Came With Us Helen Bradley depicts life in Lancashire throughout the whole year of 1908. "My pictures are a love story of that gentle period," she says. The same loved characters of the previous book make their appearance-the three maiden aunts in their graceful muslin skirts, their friend Miss Carter (who wore pink), Willie Murgatroyd, the mill lad who was always fighting, Helen herself and her brother George, the dogs Gyp and Barney. Whether the scenes and their delightful, gay commentary depict shopping trips, a picnic party, holiday fun in Blackpool, Christmas Day, or even a suffragette meeting (where Miss Carter fainted), they add up to a beguiling look back at an Edwardian child-hood than can only evoke nostalgic envy in our time.

Helen Bradley M.B.E. (1900 - 1979) painted scenes of her childhood.
She was born on the 20th of November 1900 at number 58, High Street, Lees, near Oldham, Lancashire. She was interested in art all her life, but it was not until she was in her sixties and her grandchildren were asking what life was like when she was a child, that she started painting the scenes she remembered of her own Edwardian Childhood.
These narrative paintings were first exhibited at The Saddleworth Art Society in 1965, followed by a London exhibition in 1966, and a sell out exhibition at the appropriately named Carter Gallery in Los Angeles in 1968.
In 1971 Jonathan Cape published the first of four books "And Miss Carter Wore Pink". This was an instant success. German, French, Dutch and Japanese editions were published, and a special edition produced for the U.S.A.

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