For All Of My Life by Betty Jones,Robert Jones

By Betty Jones,Robert Jones

“Rooms to permit - No Niggers, No Irish and No dogs”

This signal, brazenly displayed in England within the 1950’s, symbolises a time linked to overt racism and discrimination. It used to be in this interval, that Betty Jones, a twenty 12 months outdated white English girl did the unthinkable; she fell in love with an African guy.

‘For All of My existence’ is the notable trip of a resilient and lively girl who on the age of sixty four was firm to inform her tale. The publication provides a glimpse of the lifetime of a lady from a operating category Northern history, who her center to marry the guy she enjoyed. Disowned by way of her relations and rejected by way of the area round her Betty embarks on a trip that takes her throughout England, Cyprus and to a area of Africa defined on the time because the ‘white man’s grave’, sooner than returning to England within the mid 60’s together with her 4 younger children.

The marriage used to be disastrous, now not as a result of race, yet simply because Betty had married a guy with massive capability for deceit and violence. certainly it was once during the crossing of racial limitations that Betty came upon her major resources of aid. dwelling in Africa, the 'family' she created, unfettered by way of orthodox constraints, engendered a kinship that used to be to maintain her until eventually her dying.

"" . . Betty Jones’ survival of violence and abuse is much less a sworn statement of energy, although it really is that too, than a revelation of 1 basic yet elusive quest: that she sought merely to like and be enjoyed. She leaves us with the assumption that it isn't expectancies we needs to dwell as much as, yet dreams.”

Betty Jones died in 1997 on the age of sixty nine. She used to be divorced and left at the back of 4 childrens and 8 grandchildren. For All Of My existence used to be edited through her son, Robert.

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