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Esther Bruce, Kathy Joyce, Hannah Johnson and Michael Joyce
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Esther Bruce, Kathy Joyce, Hannah Johnson and Michael Joyce
Esther Bruce with Kathy Joyce, Hannah Johnson (who adopted Esther into her family in 1941) & 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 & an English mother. In London in the 1930s she made dresses for the singer Elisabeth Welch & 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. Date: 1947
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© The Stephen Bourne Collection / Mary Evans
1941 1947 Adopted Born Bruce Dieppe Esther Fulham Hannah Johnson Josephine Joyce Michael Mixed Race Seamstress Working Class
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