Titanic Survivor
by Violet Jessop

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Book Review: A Remarkable Life....in an Unexpected Way
Summary: 5 Stars

1. the September 1911 collision of HMS Hawke with Olympic,

2. the sinking of Titanic in 1912, and

3. the sinking of the hospital ship Britannic during World War I.

But the reader who picks up this book expecting a gripping first-person account of the sinking of Titanic will be disappointed. Jessop treats that experience in a mere two or three pages. She dismisses the sinking of Britannic in a couple of pages and doesn't even mention the collision between Hawke and Olympic.

From our current historical perspective, it's easy to judge that the most important event in Violet Jessop's life was her presence on board Titanic. But for Violet the best part of her life was her early childhood, before her father's death, in South America. Her book tells in lovingly remembered detail of her days on the Pampas before her father's illness and early death sent the family back to England and into financial need. Violet went into service on a ship not because of the glamour of the work, but because it was a job that required little education.

Violet, who lived from 1887 to 1971, completed this manuscript in 1934, probably for some contest that she apparently did not win. Her nieces discovered the manuscript after her death and submitted it to Sheridan House for publication in 1996.

This woman who is the subject of this book should not be judged for when and where she happened to be in history, but the kind of life she led.

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