![]() ![]() I was more selective thereafter." At the age of 17, dallying with a boy called Peter, who purported to be a poet, she became pregnant. She already had a hunger for serious reading, and spent part of her first week's wages on a book of poems by Edith Sitwell. ![]() Her first job was as a shorthand typist with a small firm of accountants, where she was paid £1 a week. She chose "commercial", but left after only a year. She went on to win a scholarship to Thoresby high school, in Hull, and found, at the age of 14, that she had to choose one of the three vocational courses offered. In the early months of the second world war, Jean was briefly evacuated to North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Her father, Billy Holland, was a foundry worker. She was born in the heart of Hull's fishing community. It did work, and Jean herself was a remarkable woman. ![]()
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