Esther Bruce & neighbour celebrating the Coronation

Esther Bruce and her neighbour Mrs Bennett celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 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 Fulham Garvey Guyanese Jamaican Josephine Mixed Race Mixed-race Nationalist Neighbour Nephew Seamstress Welch Working Class Working-class

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