She also played Nanny Slagg in the BBC's big-budget production of Gormenghast in 2000. She had a bigger part as Mrs Leyton in the costume drama The Duchess of Duke Street (1976), and played Mrs Mann in Oliver Twist (1985). Career Film and television īrown had a long television career, with small roles in Coronation Street as Mrs Parsons (1970–71) the Play for Today, Edna, the Inebriate Woman as Clara (1971) the Doctor Who story The Time Warrior as Lady Eleanor (1973–74) the nursing soap Angels the history-of-Britain Churchill's People long-running comedy drama Minder the police drama soap The Bill and cult sci-fi series Survivors.
During the later years of the war, she served in the Wrens and was classically trained at the Old Vic Theatre School in Lambeth, London. During the Second World War, she was evacuated to the Welsh village of Pontyates in Carmarthenshire. īrown was educated at St John's Church of England School in Ipswich and then won a scholarship to Ipswich High School, where she passed the school certificate examinations. Through her grandmother, she was descended from noted Jewish bare-knuckle boxer Isaac Bitton. Her ancestry included English, Irish and Scottish, and from her maternal grandmother, Sephardic Jewish (from Algeria, the Netherlands and Italy). Brown was born on 16 February 1927 in Needham Market, Suffolk, one of five children of Louisa Ann (née Butler) and Henry William Melton Brown. There are more ideas in the comments, so I recommend you read them. Please, go ahead and add picture books that you're confident belong on the list, and please PM me if you want to add anything else (or suggest it in the comments). I have also decided to allow media that are not picture-books, so long as I decide they fit. beautiful illustrations are a plus (pictures that you can dwell on and talk about)ĭavenport Public Library - "Imagine the Possibilities" a story that depicts aspects of daily life (cooking, sewing, farming, animals, gardening, taking care of a child or someone who is ill) a familiar story (folktale or fairytales) a simple, straightforward storyline (not abstract metaphor or literary devices) "I'm looking for suggestions of picture books to read to someone who is in the latter stages of dementia.
I started this list on behalf of Lynn's request, from the Fiction_L mailing list:
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