Jane Walsh
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Jane Walsh was an English textile worker and writer.[1] She was born c. 1905 in the slums of Oldham northern England. Walsh lived through the hard times of depression, mass unemployment, and suffering of '20 and '30.[2] Her husband Charlie worked as well in the textile industry.[1] She was left a widow at the age of 40, after many years of living with her husband and their three children, the youngest of whom was crippled by polio.
Though being a classic representative of the working class, Walsh didn't manage to connect herself with the syndicalist movevement of that time, which were very active especially near Lancashire textile areas.[2]
In 1953 her autobiography, Not Like This, was published.
