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Making Marmalade and Imperial Mentalities: the case of a Colonial wife

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Kate Law
Kate Law*
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University of Sheffield
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Miriam Cheales was born in Southern Rhodesia on the 28th October 1914 at Lincoln Farm in Beatrice, just south of Salisbury to Alan and Irene Cheales. They returned to England to deal with family business in the early 1920s and Miriam was brought up in rural Lincolnshire. After completing her education she undertook some training in basic physiotherapy, and served as a nurse during World War Two. In September 1945 Miriam married Frank Staunton. As Frank was also originally from Rhodesia, with his family farming substantial amounts of land they decided to return to Africa and Frank took a post as a native commissioner. Upon arrival in Southern Rhodesia, Staunton was both adjusting to married life and finding herself back at “home” despite the fact she rarely thought of herself as Rhodesian.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 113 , 2010 , pp. 19 - 25
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Copyright © International African Institute 2010

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18 RHL Mss. Afr.s.2398, Letter Dated, July 21 1962.

19 RHL Mss. Afr.s.2398, Letter Dated 22nd Aug 1949.

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