some photos from zelda's early life, as described in the last two posts

ada ginsberg, zelda's mother, working in an insurance office, of which she was very proud

Zelda as a little girls in the 1920s in typical posed photo of the times

ginsberg sisters lily, ada and bessie - they were ambitious and worked and played hard, saving enough to open millinery businesses across islington

zelda at her infants school, colebrook row in islington

Ada and Zelda in Brighton a favourite haunt of the ginsberg sisters

Manny "Bolshie" Brown, Zelda's father, often sacked because of his arguments with the bosses in the fur trade

Ada Ginsberg/Brown, Zelda's mother, who did shorthand and typing at night school in order to get an office job in an insurance company, quite an achievement for a jewish immigrant girl

Grandpa and Grandma Ginsberg - grandpa was a cabinet maker and a tyrant who beat his daughters for being even a few minutes after curfew

Mary Ginsberg's wedding with guests brought over from the Soviet Union, with money made in the Ginsberg sisters' millinery business in the early 1920s