![]() ![]() Jeanette had left home at 16 after falling in love with another girl. Schooling was erratic but Jeanette had got herself into a girl's grammar school and later she read English at Oxford University. Her parents intended her for the missionary field. Reading was not much approved unless it was the Bible. The house had no bathroom either, which was fortunate because it meant that Jeanette could read her books by flashlight in the outside toilet. Strangely, one of the other books was Malory's Morte d'Arthur, and it was this that started her life quest of reading and writing. There were only six books in the house, including the Bible and Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments. ![]() Her adopted father was a factory worker, her mother stayed at home. As a Northern working class girl she was not encouraged to be clever. Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England, and adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby mill-town of Accrington. ![]()
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