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the family on more solid financial footing, but in spite of that, vial and the rest of her siblings. You were born afterward, she was the oldest a number of medical catastrophes and really, regardless of what their income had been like. These catastrophes would have basically been unavoidable at the time violet and her younger brother re at the time when it was just the two of them both got scarlet ever and re actually died of it. Violet later got tuberculosis and then also got typhoid fever her brothers nearly died of diphtheria. She had for there's an one sister who survived to adulthood, but she had other brothers and sisters who died while they were still children. Violets tuberculosis caused her lungs to hemorrhage, and so, even after she was old enough to go to school, a doctor actually recommended that should stay home,

later. When violet was in the hospital and seemed ass, though she might not recover, it was recommended that she go to the mountains where the air might give her a few more months. They really did things going to die her lungs had been seriously hemorrhaging for a long time. So after having lived and Bahia Blanca in Buenos Aires, Violets Father got a trance two Mendoza Argentina, which is in the foothills of the Andes, mountains and violence, health did give stronger and Mendoza. She seemed to have an aggressively stubborn way to live, and after a while, she was doing well enough to explore their sprawling Adobe house with her pet armadillo. I find that wildly charming Eventually, she was well enough to go to school, which she did gleefully until her father's death. When she was in her early teens, she really wanted to think so badly. She wanted to be able to go to school and she wanted to have a sister, but instead she had a series of brothers, then his sister who tragically died of meningitis when she was a baby, then a sister.

Lives who adult had fallen. Violets father died, her mother decided to take the family to England, even though people worried that violets lungs would not be able to handle the english air so said, such a big concern. Of her argentinian teachers actually offered to adopt her. At this point, violet was about sixteen years old. They had a difficult time, however, violence mother had I'm pregnant when her father died and the baby died shortly after it was born in spite of the help of violence. An uncle, they were her mother sister and her husband. The family have real trouble finding a place to live. There were children and the mother, with no source of income beyond a very small widows, pensions and eventually, decided to put the boys in a catholic orphanage so that they could be educated and raised within their religious faith, placing the boys in an orphanage.

Billy allowed their mother to go, find work and she got work as a stewardess and the royal mail line where she worked for five years. This gave her an income though, because the royal mail line was providing long distance passenger service across the ocean, it members had long absence, isn't separations from the rest of the family your mother was away. It was up to violet to look after her surviving little sister Eileen. Although was interrupted by yet another hospitalization for stones, eventually the two sisters boarded in a convent where they could stay together and be educated, violet continue to live on at the convent after finding work as a governess Violet zone health and the various illnesses of her siblings. The death of her baby sister molly from an injustice all these things, combined together to lead her to want to study nursing

and while she was living in the comments she set her sites on taking an exam that would allow her to further and her education and pursue a career. But then to her mother had spent five years working as a stewardess. Her help became too fragile to continue, and so violet recognising that her family needed a source of more income than she could possibly provide by being a governess applied to be a stewardess herself. Like her mother and she did so at the royal mail wine within a talk about what happened when she became stewardess on board these ocean liners. After a brief word from one of the sponsors who keeps our show on the air, this episode of stuffy miss than history glasses, brought to you by love book. If you ve ever wanted to share a love story with somebody, but you weren't really sure how to start that is where love book comes in. These are totally customizable books that you can give as gifts to the people that you love and care about. Most people use them to list out the reasons why

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just up and her mother got to work assembling a wardrobe that would be as boring and unattractive as possible. Cracks me that she had to take these steps and worse, talk about her destroying to find the most dowdy gray unappealing outfits possible. Just ups, first Post was aboard the Orinoco. Its travelled to the West Indies, better known today is Vivian before really physically demanding work ocean liner, this era, where a lot more about utility than about vacationing. So today somebody might get on a similar. Ships have basically tool around the Caribbean, pleasure crews, but most people on ocean liner needed to get from one place to another, typically across an ocean, and it was not about taking time off it accessing. It was about enduring a long voyage to get to where you needed to go and a lot of port of call with exciting activities to participate hidden

that land of travel and then also we don't really talk about- is of much in this episode. But the people who were in actual cabin to shoot a violet would have been working with as a stewardess. They were in the minority. There are a lot of people in steerage in very unpleasant accommodations, however, Spite of these differences between how we look at cruising now verses how these winners were functioning, then the role Stewardess was very like that of a cabin steward. Today, violet would have cleaned cabins run errands for passengers delivered meals generally kept things neat and tidy, and looked after Seasick. Passengers sometimes involve being up all night with people who were ill Violet S. It found that getting her sea legs was basically a matter of fear willpower, but even once she was

stem to the motion of the sea. The work itself was exhausting shelf it and get a lot of formal training on the royal mail line. Aside from what she picked up herself on the job on her very first voyage, she heard her thumb, which got infected just as a very severe storm put everybody crew included in their birth with with sea sickness and, unfortunately, the people who were stricken ill at this point included the doctors. If she was unable to treated for this infected dumper, awhile ass. She describes them in her memoirs violets first years, the stewardess were quite difficult in it. Being on her feet, doing physical labour on a moving ship all day long. She was also basically conveying confined there with both the passengers and the rest of the crew from time to time. This led the trouble. On the milder end, there were clicks in fighting and frustrations among the crew to deal with. She also defend off the romantic and physical advances of both passengers and superiors in it

in case she had a lengthy stay aboard a ship with a bow after he revealed that he had no respect for her religious beliefs, knowing that she was going to break up with him for it once they got to shore. She describes her favorite times in our. Early giant journeys as being when they were in port, especially because at this point where you can do laundry on a ship, but this was not the case at the time, so stays in port were linked the year before the ship departed again. This meant that she got to explore. She got to see new things and basically travel a little bit during the time that they were not at sea. So, while these long stretches at sea were exhausting- and she was very often sick- not just seasick but

They continue to have trouble with her health. She also delighted in exploring the ports in the cities where they stopped as her career progressed. This included trips in New York City, which she loved, and she also got to go back to Buenos Aires and say hello to the hospital staff who had been shores so sure that she was going to die of tuberculosis when she was a child but eventually Joseph was serving aboard ship with a merry captain who had previously made advances toward her, which she had rebuffed the second.

I'm around he how he found fault with everything that she did and eventually had her dismissed for flirting with the officers, something she had not done, but she also had no way to disprove this assertion in no way to pursue any sort of recourse sell out of work. She went to find another stewardess job and she found one at the White STAR line. She did not really want to work for the White STAR line. It ship sailed the North Atlantic and she had heard plenty of horror stories about that being a particularly rough crossing with bad weather and red ships from the bad weather and from icebergs, and she hadn't heard anything bad at all about the company itself. She just knew that the hour were long and because of the White STAR learns reputation. Exceptional service was both expected and demanded. So this combination of exhausting work, extremely high standards for the quality of the work and the treachery. The treacherous none of the seas, however,

if she had been dismissed from her previous post, she wound up applying for companies that were not at the top of her list and she wandered being hired by the White far line. She served aboard the majestic the apron back in the ocean. It on routes that went to New York, violent Jessup, really prove her worth to the White STAR line. She was hard working. She was dependable gracious kind was beloved by her soldiers, many of whom went on to mention her in her warm steadfast attention to them through illness and rough seas and other trials, specifically in letters to family, infer so she was chosen to serve on the Olympic aborted Maiden voyage, as part of a hand picked best of class crew. This is a job that started before the departure as the crew readied the ship to sail the eloi.

Big was launched on October twentieth, nineteen ten. After nearly two years of construction and at the time it was considered to be the best and most luxurious ship in the Atlantic. Its maiden voyage took place following June after its consent was completed in September of that year, as the Olympic was outbound from Southampton collided with the ATM ad hoc near the Isle of Wight. Violet was aboard. We can logically conclude, then she was uninjured, as she does not mention this in her. My memoirs at all because does not seem to have been a big deal enough to even talk about, as he was writing her memoirs. However, the damage to the Olympic was extensive and take about two months to repair, but once they will see worthy again, Jessup was come born again part of the stewardess crew. After a year on the alembic Jessup was once again. Hams acted for a maiden voyage crew in nineteen twelve. It was a boy

whites are alarmed next best in class ship. The titanic Joseph was in her bunk sleepily, trying to concentrate on her devotions on April, fourteenth nineteen twelve. When the Titanic famously struck a nice After the crash, there was a temporary silence and then her roommate stoic Leif said sounds as if something has happened. They both drastic Jessup, expressed her disbelief when a steward named stately told them the ship with them. Being from there. They began escorting passengers to the boats. Her recounting of this part of it sounds almost impossibly com. Just up and her roommate took their passengers the lifeboat and then with nothing else to do they went back to their cabin and it was there that Stanley found them again told them that the boat really was thinking. This is no longer a matter precautions and insisted that they go up to the decks as well, even rummaged, through justice closet, to try to find some warm clothing for heard aware, as

made her way to the deck. The full seriousness of the situation had really not reached people, yet everything was being discussed this precautionary and boats for being lowered without many people aboard. But while on deck the ship started, noticeably shift, and before long someone here, the Jessup, a baby and she and her made an were put into lifeboat. Sixteen from her position and a lifeboat Jessup saw the Titanic go down and see in the rest of the people. In her boat were rescued by the capacity of the following day, a woman who was presumably the baby's mother, snatched literally out of her arms after finding her Jessup, eventually learn returned to England aboard the Lapland, and she had a very strange experience much later in her life or someone called her on the phone claims to be. The baby laughed and hung up, and it's very unclear whether that was really the baby in on the titanic or not yeah. That's that

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we agreed to cover for her while the ship was imports that she could go spend time with dead, and she had hoped that the two of them clear, the air, but nothing actually came of this. She returned to her posed and she went back home as planned. That, editor who added her memoirs, sort of meditates for on how her life might have been different if she had wound up marrying NED, rather than briefly marrying mother person later on, whose apparently, with my very good marriage, and she hardly refers to in her memoir at all and nineteen fourteen after Great Britain declared war on Germany, just decided to join the British Red Cross. She became part of the voluntary, a detachment where she started as a junior nurse. Finally, taking on the nursing profession she had so wanted to pursue when she was a child who trained at a hospital before once again being assigned to a ship, and this time it was another White STAR vessel, the Britannic

The voting list construction had started about six months before the sinking of the titanic. It had been conceived as even bigger and more luxurious than that ill fated vessel since the titanic. Thanks so early in the construction of the pretending. A number of safety improvements were included. As this new ship was being built, including additional lifeboats and watertight compartments. The Britannic was actually scheduled to begin passenger service and nineteen fifteen, but instead it was requisitioned for military use and the alleged which we talked about just previously serving on was requisitioned as well. The Britannic became a hospital ship and served from December twenty third nineteen fifteen through June of nineteen. Sixteen, when it was briefly released from the war service before

in requisitioned again that August on November, twenty first nineteen, sixteen the Britannic sank after presumably striking a mine in the water not far from Greece. At the time, people thought that it could have actually been struck by a torpedo and once again, Violet Jessup was calm. She went to her cabin and she gathered up her prey her toothbrush. A ring had belonged to NED Inter Clock. She read a pouch out at the front of her apron by folding up to keep all of these little item secure, and then she clapped her life belt on over her coat and she got onto a lifeboat, though just recounting of the titanic as quietly tragic. She counts. The lights on the deck is the ship thanks realising that it's all lost, but her account of the Britannic thinking is horrifying and in a way this is

little incongruous, because more than fifteen hundred people died on the titanic, but only about twenty eight died in the sinking of the brutality of the differences that those last moments ass as violet witness them worked here. A fine and brutal the british, Next propellers were still turning in the water, and this just created chaos. It was turning up the wire with fucking men and debris toward the propellers, and even though she was in a life Jessup realise that if she did not get out and swim, her life boat was going to hit the propellers as well, She had always instructed passengers not to put their life belts on over their coats in case they needed to take their coats off and it we'd just meant as she did the opposite of what she told them. And that was nearly fatal. In spite of her life belt, the weight of her coat pulled her underwater. She

her way up and she struck something with her head from below until finally, she caught someone else's, Armand. She was pulled above the water one of the ships. Motor boats picked her up and she and others wound up on a tiny island with the Britannic doctors acting one another up and though she was injured. She was safe thanks to the rescue efforts of other nearby. It's only twenty eight people, as Tracy said, were killed out of the more than one thousand people that were on board sober. Obviously you she had immediately gone to work as a stewardess again after the sinking of the titanic, but this time she knew that it was going to be hard to find a stewardess job until the war was over. So this time she stayed ashore for about three years, she found a job on land is a clerk, but she had some trouble concentrating she didn't really think much of it until a lot later when she got an x ray for a tooth that was bothering her and she learned that her skull had been fractured ass. She was trying to get away from the botanical

So we don't know exactly at what point in her life, she discovered his skull fracture, but we do know that she didn't stay on land forever. As for the Olympic, which we talked about a couple times was upgraded again after the war and resume service, and once the war was over, Violet Jessup once again served a board it and the Olympic continued its transatlantic service until nineteen thirty five, that was a little less than a year after it struck and think alike. Ship off of Cape COD Massachusetts and Joseph actually was not a board for that one. That would have been a feat. It's not totally surprising that she was the board both the alembic, an attack, because the titanic screw with hand picked from other vessels, but having been aboard the Olympic that italic and the brutality. When all three

of those like best of line vessels had incidents lively coincidental that she was on their brows them, so violent Jessup spent the out part of her later stewardess. We are working with the Red STAR line on world cruises and she worked aboard five different annual world cruises that stand between nineteen twenty six in nineteen thirty one She went back to the royal mail line again in nineteen thirty five and serve them in terror until the start of world war, two during the Second World WAR she worked. Sure as a nurse again rather than being on another seafaring nursing ship. The world war to violent, mostly worked clerical and factory jobs, realizing that her work as a stewardess was not going to allow her to retire. And apart from a couple of be brief stance at sea, She was land bound until her death on May fifth of nineteen. Seventy one she finished

the memoir that we ve referenced a few times in nineteen? Thirty? Four, which is one of the reasons? Why doesn't include a lot of her later life, but it wasn't published until two of her nieces submitted a manuscript in the spring of nineteen, ninety six and then kind of ironically. The man who wound up editing. It was someone who had previously interviewed her ass. He was doing some work on survivors of the titanic, so it all together in this sort of small world situation, very cool, finally theory, if you're afraid of ships and thinking I've been on ships a lot and they don't really frightened me. But when I got to the part about the titanic thinking I I was like what ok every time I've been on a ship there's been a mustard drill. There's enough, I there are enough lifeboats for every person on board

The crew have been exceptionally prompt about escorting everyone to the deck during this mustard. Oh, but I had the spot where I was like what, if the ship sank in the middle of the ocean- and there were no other ships around and we were stuck in the middle of the ocean and then that's, ok! You need to start thinking about that. Right now think about something else, so that as violent Jessup, do you also have a little bit of listener? Rail took Be this episode. I knew this from Jane and she writes to us about something that a few people have written about. So I thought it was simply to share with everyone. Hello. How are you crazy? I've been listening to the podcast archives for over a year now, and I'm just now getting close to catching up. I absolutely history and listening to the podcast has gotten me through many long flights and car trips, as well as my daily, can be on a subway thanks so much for the many hours.

Payment that you and everyone else who has worked on the show have provided I'm a little bit behind. So I just listen to your podcast someplace. He worthless Ferguson in Brown versus bored. I really enjoyed these episodes and just happens to have listened to a pod cast from this american life around the same time that discusses some of the same issues episode sixty two, the problem we live with. The episode really shared how the legacy of segregation is still affecting education today, and there were some moment, that were particularly heartbreaking to listen to you. I thought you might be interested in listening to this as well as another. This american might opposite episode called three miles said by fifty, which discusses some of the same issues. Listening to your pipe guest about historical segregation and listening to a pike asked about its modern day, effects in the same week was a wake up call to how historical events continue to have a huge impact on people's lives. Thank you so much for all the important work he do and thank you so much for handling. If

Race, gender and sexuality, with such some sensitivity and respect Jane. Thank you Jane for writing. In we had several people who were writing to us about the problem we all live with, which is actually a two part episode from this american life. I listen to the fore part has. It was airing on the radio and if you listen to me work and life. Normally. There are brief segments that are kind of tied together around a theme, and so we have this area too and pr driveway moment where we pulled into the parking spot at the grocery store and then waited for the end of the segment. And then we realise the end of a segment was actually the end of the episode. So we had to stop its geography hopping and not sit in the car for an hour that the whole thing is definitely definitely very well worth. Two, we felt pretty briefly and our episodes a bow of Brown versus board, especially the second one about the aftermath of brown verses

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