Women and Children First
They survived the
Titanic
, but their lives were changed forever…
It was one in the morning and first-class victualling steward…
Lady Juliette Mason-Parker knelt on the bathroom floor, acid scorching…
Annie McGeown sat on the edge of a bunk and…
Reg lay awake mulling over what he’d seen on the…
Next morning at breakfast, Reg couldn’t meet Mrs Grayling’s eye,…
After breakfast Margaret Grayling found a deckchair on the promenade…
At luncheon, first-class passengers could choose from a set menu…
The stewards were free from the end of lunch service,…
By dinner time on Saturday evening, Juliette was restless in…
Most tables in the first-class dining saloon seated eight people.
After breakfast on Sunday morning, Annie McGeown went with her…
As passengers began arriving for breakfast on Sunday morning, Reg…
John was worried about Reg. He seemed distracted on this…
‘I hope there isn’t some kind of illness being passed…
The engines had stopped almost immediately, and the silence that…
Annie McGeown was lying in her bunk unable to get…
As Reg walked along B Deck, passengers were beginning to…
When she woke, for a few seconds Juliette couldn’t remember…
‘Annie? It’s Eileen.’ The words were accompanied by urgent knocking.
Reg walked over to the port side of the boat…
A surge of third-class passengers arrived on the boat deck,…
The water came faster than Reg had expected and he…
Annie sat huddled on a bench in Lifeboat 13, so…
As she watched the Titanic sliding beneath the water, Juliette’s…
Reg was shivering convulsively and if it hadn’t been for…
‘Was that a shooting star?’
Throughout the night, Annie sat still and silent, her chest…
In the doctor’s consulting room, Reg was stripped of his…
Annie stood on deck watching until the last lifeboat had…
Juliette found that she couldn’t stop crying. It was humiliating…
Reg was badly shaken by his conversation with Annie. He…
The first-and second-class areas on the Carpathia were much smaller…
When Reg opened his eyes, he was momentarily confused to…
Mildred persuaded Annie to share her first-class suite, which had…
Reg was wakened by a man’s voice, an American. ‘If…
On arrival at New York’s Pier 54, Robert Graham led…
Reg poured his heart out in the letter to John’s…
The apartment that Seamus had found for Annie and his…
When Juliette told her mother that Robert wanted to take…
On Sundays, when Reg wasn’t working, he explored the city…
‘My goodness! What brings you here?’ Mr Grayling looked startled…
A date was set for Juliette and her mother to…
Annie found life in Kingsbridge a struggle. The practicalities were…
The night following Mr Grayling’s offer of employment, Reg lay…
‘It appears to be about two carats.’ Lady Mason-Parker eyed…
Reg was astonished but pleased when he saw a story…
The morning of her departure for Saratoga Springs, Juliette woke…
A couple of days after starting work for Mr Grayling,…
Reg liked to keep busy and there wasn’t much to…
Mr Frank came into the kitchen holding a newspaper. ‘Your…
A sign announced ‘Welcome to Saratoga Springs, district of Saratoga…
Reg had very mixed feelings about his flirtation with Molly.
Annie hadn’t realised how hot it would be in New…
Reg let everyone think the cut on his hand was…
‘This is John,’ Molly said, to fill the stunned silence…
Mr Grayling was in his office. Mr Frank tapped on…
In Saratoga Springs, the temperature shot up into the nineties…
Mr Frank insisted that Mr Grayling’s chauffeur drove Reg downtown…
Annie couldn’t stop thinking about the séance and analysing everything…
Reg completed the letter to his mother – a simple…
Mr Grayling hadn’t been to the house since the previous…
The days when Juliette could wear a corset were long…
From the first day at the summer house, Molly started…
Father Kelly knocked on the door one morning and asked…
In early August, a storm blew up the Atlantic coast…
Somewhere in the depths of his brain, Reg became aware…
Juliette couldn’t stop torturing herself with visions of Robert escorting…
When Reg awoke, it was daylight outside and the storm…
Juliette scribbled a very simple note: ‘Am in New York…
It was getting dark as Reg walked over Brooklyn Bridge.
As soon as Juliette woke the next day, she rang…
Juliette didn’t have time to be nervous as Robert dashed…
Reg didn’t know where to find a police station. In…
Reg had a lot of time to worry while the…
Later that night, George Grayling sat at his desk with…
As arranged, Robert came to the hotel at six and…
After the newspaper story about her appeared, Annie was alarmed…
When Reg turned up at the Cunard Line office to…