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HARRIET MARIA EDGAR was born in 1894, the eldest daughter of a butcher in Chester Road, Hulme, Manchester, so her first years were spent in the reign of Queen Victoria. She died in 1967, leaving among her papers some fascinating stories of life in a slum district of Manchester at the end of the nineteenth century. She lived only a few minutes' walk from the Manchester Ship Canal, the Bridgewater Canal, and the first passanger railway station ever built anywhere in the world - the Manchester terminus of George Stephenson's Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Her son has now collated and edited her stories, and they will be published in March, 2003.
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