A memoir of a thousand miles
India, May 5 -- My mission in life is not merely to survive,
but to thrive;
and to do so with some passion,
some compassion,
some humour,
and some style.
These lines by Maya Angelou pretty much sum up British textile historian, Jenny Housego's recently released e-book, A Woven Life . Layered and candid, it is an ordinary memoir of Housego, who as a child in countryside England thought she would grow up to be a spy but life had other plans for her. Along with journalist, researcher and teacher, Maya Mirchandani, she lays bare her idyllic childhood in the aftermath of the second World War; her aspirations of being in the arts and then as a researcher at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
"Life unfolds in mysterious ways. In th...
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