This is the story of a woman who found a secret which made her one of the most original revolutionaries of her day. Annie Jaeger kept a small shop in Stockport, Cheshire, during Britain’s Depression in the 1930s. Her husband had died and she felt hopeless.
Then her only son, Bill, came home with an idea that changed their lives. Annie sold her shop and set off with her son to the East End of London then suffering from unemployment and nightly clashes with Fascist marchers. Ceaselessly visiting the homes of the workers, and usually walking to save the bus fare, she fought to build sound homes that were the answer to bitterness and deadlock.
Most of the story is in Annie’s own words. The rest has been filled in by her daughter-in-law, Clara Jaeger, formerly secretary to the American novelist, Theodore Dreiser.
After Annie’s death in America, five hundred families wrote to her son in gratitude for what they had found through this remarkable woman.
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