Let me share some thoughts about the manuscript It is largely well-written, dutifully organized and, as any good memoir should be, redolent of the authors spirit and persona. In the spring of 1996, Margaret Meehan and her sister Mary submitted the manuscript of an unpublished memoir that their aunt, Violet Jessop, had completed in 1934. Under a pen name, it had been submitted for a literary competition, nature undisclosed one can only assume it had been rejected. Until meeting John Maxtone-Graham, she had never talked to a reporter, journalist or historian before.
Besides experiencing the Titanic disaster, she was on the Olympic when it collided with the cruiser Hawke and was on board Britannic as a nurse during World War I when it struck a mine and sank in the Aegean. Jessop had served on the Titanic and on that ships sisters, Olympic and Britannic. His notes provide an inside look at developmental editing of a promising project. The quotations in this blog post are from Jessops memoir, Titanic Survivor, which Maxtone-Graham edited.
In 1970, while researching his first book, The Only Way to Cross, about ocean liners, John Maxtone-Graham, was looking for Titanic survivors to interview, and his mother mentioned to him a stewardess named Violet Jessop, whom she had encountered in the 1920s.
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