“My mum and I used to go and visit her and take her stuff which she would then flog. My mother looked after Jean her whole life. My mum was her main support, financially. “She had eight children by different men. Even her own mother didn’t like her very much. It was only as I got older that I realised that not everybody was like that.”Ĭhristine knew that her parents weren’t married and that the family had a difficult relationship with her mother’s sister, Jean. “I didn’t understand why but that’s how it was. We weren’t encouraged to speak to neighbours. “I grew up with my mum and dad, we lived in a flat. How didn’t I know for the whole of my life?” There are hundreds of women who did exactly what my mum did all through history. “If you look at a lot of oral history about gay people, it tends to still predominantly focus around men. Now whether that was a relationship that would have continued, for the rest of her life, I don’t know. My mum was technically denied the one thing she wanted, which was to be with probably the woman she loved. “I’ve been able to have a career, have a family, and still be gay. She feels like she’s finally able to talk about it. “She said that she’d had a relationship, quite a long standing relationship with a woman and that her parents had written her a letter saying that if there was any form of relationship going on, that they didn’t approve and that it wasn’t an appropriate way to live a life.”Įllen kept her mum’s secret for nearly 20 years. “I then asked, ‘does anybody else know?’ and she said, ‘no, I will go to the grave with this and you are to tell nobody.’ The way she fixed her gaze on me, when she said that, I knew she was serious. She just span round and said, ‘I think I do’.”Įllen’s mum told her that she’d had a relationship with a woman, but that she had married Ellen’s father and had never told anybody. I said, ‘you don’t know what it’s been like’.
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