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Ethel & Ernest

Ethel & Ernest

A True Story
Biography & MemoirGraphic Novels
Pages
104
Published
1998
Language
English

Synopsis

Follow the lives of Ethel and Ernest, an ordinary English couple, from their first meeting in the 1920s through their deaths in the 1970s. This graphic novel beautifully illustrates their enduring love and the everyday changes in British society they witnessed. It's a touching and often humorous look at a bygone era through the eyes of two remarkable, yet unremarkable, people.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

NostalgicHeartwarmingMelancholicReflective
Family Saga

Genres

Biography & Memoir Graphic Novels History Biography Comics

About the author

R
Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, to parents Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900–1971), a milkman, and Ethel Bowyer (1895–1971), a former lady's maid-turned-housewife, who married in 1930. His other known relatives are: an adoptive paternal grandmother (his father's step-mother), his maternal grandparents, and two maternal uncles who died during childhood. He attended Rutlish School, at that time a grammar school, pursued cartooning from an early age and, despite his father's attempts to...