![]() ![]() Up to the first world war it was the centre of the linen industry. ![]() Dunfermline is a small country town built on hills. I had finished my exams, and gone home to rest. Something else, however, was coming my way. I always had a great sense of vocation, and the feeling I had a job to do in life, and I had quite made up my mind that this was what my job was to be. I wanted to do something about the misery and unhappiness I saw all round me. I was at that time very young, and I became fired with a crusading spirit. Here I saw a great deal of poverty, and had to do with children who were not very bright because they were undernourished. I studied at the Moray House Training College in Edinburgh, and my training had taken me into the poorer parts of the city. ![]() My father died when I was a year old, and five years later-when I was six-my mother remarried and we came to live in Dunfermline. I was born on 5 June 1909, in the same house where my mother, and her father before her, had been born-Woodside Cottage, near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. I had always wanted to teach, but I had certainly never intended to become a governess. ![]()
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