TY - JOUR AU - Chamberlain, Mary AB - Leytonstone c. 1963 by Mary Chamberlain Let me set the scene: Muriel: My mother died now, a long time ago, she died about- Charles: — 1946 Muriel: — we went to St. Lucia, when I first gone, she die about a year after, 1946. Muriel: . . . he had to write to my father for me. In those days, you had to write home, write a letter to the girl father, what not — will explain it better than she, because she can't explain Charles: — I nothing. I had a big wedding in church. It was a four o'clock wedding Muriel: . . . or something, and when did you marry, he had in those days Charles: — twenty two cars. Muriel: . . . when he went away then to other places like Curacao or America, then I went with him I work for the American, she can't tell you, she don't know Charles: — nothing for me. 1 From 1941, when they left Barbados, until 1985 when they returned, Muriel and Charles lived variously in Trinidad, Curacao, the United States and St. Lucia. Their daughter, though bom in Barbados, was brought up in History Workshop TI - Gender and the Narratives of Migration JF - History Workshop Journal DO - 10.1093/hwj/1997.43.87 DA - 1997-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/gender-and-the-narratives-of-migration-aYyP1cwmAH SP - 87 EP - 110 VL - 1997 IS - 43 DP - DeepDyve ER -