At Dumfries Academy
she found you could tell the handful of working-class students by their cheaper uniforms and the furrows of their parents' dreams on their faces.
Fell, Alison. “Rebel with a Cause”. Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties, edited by Liz Heron, Virago, 1985, pp. 11-25.
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For college it was hard to choose...
Material Conditions of Writing
Alison Fell
As a child AF
learned that to write a composition was to have power, moving her words about like an army. She rejoiced in the approval of teachers, and in having her stories read aloud...
