Higher English - The Grim Sisters

Hello Eager Scholar

I have just collected some sites together below that might be of interest to you while studying Grim Sisters. I have found some places where you can look at how women were represented/expected to behave in the 1950's. You can make the connections between what you see and the poem.

Women's Magazines of the 1950's - if you scroll down the page on this site, you can click on a number of links which take you to reproductions of adverts and magazine front covers from the 1950's. Check out the "wasp-waist" creating corset! Look at the efforts women were expected to make on the domestic front.

How to Have a Happy Husband - delight in the text from a 1950's Home Economics textbook, on the left hand side of this particular page. I showed it to my wife - she wasn't impressed.

Women and their Families in 1950's USA - OK, so it's not the Glasgow/Motherwell of Lochead's youth, but things were very similar.

Women's History Timeline 1950-59 - another triumph from the BBC website. In future, never complain about paying the license fee - the website is worth the money alone, never mind the telly and the radio! Play the audio slideshow, sit back and learn.

Eddie Cochran – C'mon Everybody - if you have Spotify, treat yourself to a bit of 1950's rock and roll. If not, get Spotify NOW and enjoy. Just click on the link here. It's free, legal and has almost every album known to man on it. Your musical education starts here. Just give 'em your email address and a password, download a small programme and away you go. Just take your headphones out of your MP3 and stick them in your PC. Audio heaven awaits!

Hope these help.
Mr K.