Chapter 5: Edith and Her Contemporaries

  1. Edith Sowerbutts, Memoirs of a British Seaman, unpublished manuscript, IWM, p. 78.

  2. Ibid., p. 15.

  3. White Star Magazine, October 1926, pp. 34–5.

  4. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 99.

  5. Ibid., p. 53.

  6. Cunard Line, May 1921, p. 162.

  7. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 85.

  8. Ibid., p. 78.

  9. Cunard Line, October 1920, p. 111.

  10. Manchester Guardian, 9 March 1928.

  11. Westminster Gazette, 7 November 1924.

  12. ‘The Captainess’, Daily Chronicle, 12 March 1926.

  13. Daily Chronicle, 26 October 1925.

  14. Evening Standard, 4 November 1927.

  15. White Star Magazine, September 1927, p. 10.

  16. Westminster Gazette, 3 October 1927.

  17. Manchester Guardian, 9 January 1929.

  18. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 73.

  19. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 72.