Esther Bruce, Kathy Joyce, Hannah Johnson and Michael Joyce

Esther Bruce with Kathy Joyce, Hannah Johnson (who adopted Esther into her family in 1941) and Michael Joyce outside 13 Dieppe Street, Fulham, London. Josephine Esther Bruce (1912-1994) working-class mixed race seamstress born in Fulham, London to a Guyanese father and an English mother. In London in the 1930s she made dresses for the singer Elisabeth Welch and befriended the Jamaican nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Co-authored her autobiography in 1991 with her adopted nephew Stephen Bourne. Included in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Adopted Autobiography Befriended Bourne Co Authored Co-authored Dictionary Dieppe Fulham Garvey Guyanese Jamaican Josephine Kathy Mixed Race Mixed-race Nationalist Nephew Seamstress Welch Working Class Working-class

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