In many ways she was quite a remarkable woman. My dad (who had a very interesting career) said she would have been much more successful than him if she had been allowed to continue working after they got married.
The tradition at the time was that women gave up their jobs more or less as part of the marriage ceremony. Instead she devoted herself to family and small children: having five of her own and then working voluntarily as a teaching assistant.
She had a tremendous command of the English language, passing on her middle class accent to me (and for ever denying me the pretension of being working class despite my relatively humble background).
Merlyn (Williams) Brind and me.
Jonathan Brind