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THE INDOMITABLE BEATIE

Ronald Morris has an extraordinary tale to tell, and he relates it simply and effectively.’
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Below DecksVery few are the writers who come across a character who is totally unknown, never before treated in print and so wildly interesting that the wonder is why that life has gone unexamined. In the author’s case, the starting point was the moment he arrived at the Training Ship Mercury in September 1945.

Acquiring the material involved a vast correspondence, hundreds of letters to people with Mercury connections whose replies slowly built up a profile of an astonishing woman and the society in which she moved.

Ronald MorrisThe newspaper library of the British Museum at Colindale in north London yielded up reams of details in papers such as The Times, the News of the World and The People, as also did the weekly chat magazines Truth and Vanity Fair, with their blunt attacks on the people involved in the court case.

The Law Society provided directions to court records, notably the sworn affidavits of those imperilled by the trial of March 1885. Beautiful documents in copperplate handwriting, they are the outpourings of desperate people in fear of being broken on the wheels of their respective follies.

The author has had a career in writing parallel to careers at sea, in the agricultural industry and education. He was educated at Reed's and the University of Nottingham, M.Ed. 1974.

 

Read more in:
The Indomitable Beatie by Ronald Morris
(Sutton Publishing 2004, ISBN 0750937106)

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