research

My earlier research focussed on the lives of Herbert Sulzbach, and of Henny and Hermann Hartog. Those biographies have been published, or will soon be published, by Pen and Sword Books Ltd.

I am currently researching the lives of all four grandmothers of myself and my husband. This requires considerable travelling in order to 'follow in their footsteps'. It is not easy to research the lives of unknown and 'insignificant' women. Their footsteps are barely visible in the landscape and their existence is hardly acknowledged, let alone documented.

These women are the subject of my next book, in which I tell not only the story of their individual lives but also consider their different experiences and their responses to the same world events, as well as to similar personal struggles. Their names are:

Emily Louisa Hepburn      (née Brown)     1875 – 1963    born in London

Ethel Elizabeth Chapple  (née Fryer)        1879 – 1983    born in Shropshire

Ethel May Reeve                  (née Smith)      1885 – 1971    born in London

Henny Hartog                       (née Scheuer) 1897 – 1942    born in Frankfurt