Patricia Skidmore: 3 books
Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry
A Home Child Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In Marjorie's case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of...
A British Home Child in Canada 2-Book Bundle
Marjorie Her War Years / Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2018
The biography of a British girl, split from her family by the British child migration program, learning to cope with her hard new life in Canada.
Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry — Book #1
In 1937, 10-year-old Marjorie Arnison was shipped from Britain to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School near...
Marjorie Her War Years
A British Home Child in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2018
Biography of a British girl, split from her family by a wartime emigration program, learning to cope with her hard new life in Canada
Set during 1939-1942, as Marjorie copes with the loss of her family, her country, her roots, and her identity while Canada goes to war
A harsh critique of the “Home...