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Caught between these covers is the authentic, forthright voice of
Christian Watt, servant girl, lady's maid and fishwife. Born in
1833, her working life began in domestic service before the age of
nine and ended with her selling her husband's catch from door to
door. The tragic death of most of her close male family - her
husband, four brothers and her favorite child - drowned by a sudden
squall that sunk their boat, robbed her of her sanity. But cared
for in the remarkable Cornhill Asylum in Aberdeen, a kindly doctor
encouraged her to write her memoirs in pencil. In 1983 this bundle
of papers, which included other family documents, was turned into a
book by the historian David Fraser, and has been saluted as the
Montaillou of Scotland.
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