Item 1 - 'Bad Aunt Bertha, or, A Puritan's Progress'

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Add. MS a/784/1

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'Bad Aunt Bertha, or, A Puritan's Progress'

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  • 1900-1983 (Creation)

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Manuscript, with photographs, sketches and original letters pasted in and interleaved.
3 unnumbered ff; ff. 1-354; ff. 1-104; ff. 1-12, unnumbered f.; 3 ff; 2 ff; 2 ff; ff. 1-2; 4 ss.; 1 fs and 2 ss.
Original packaging: 2 paper wrappers and 1 envelope, all with labels pasted on.

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Full title: 'Bad Aunt Bertha, or, A Puritan's Progress, being the memoirs of Bertha Wright written in France during the decade of 1970-1980.' Includes sketches by Bertha Wright, photographs and original letters. With original packaging, labelled by Bertha Wright.

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      The first part of this autobiography, edited by Robert Neild, was published c 2010 in a private printing by Warboys, Cambridgeshire, 'Bad Aunt Bertha : the memoirs of Bertha Wright'. Trinity College Library holds a copy, for which see the catalogue record here.

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