Papers of Robina Macfarlane Purdon, student of the Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated), Glasgow, Scotland

The Robina Purdon Collection includes the following records:

• Student lecture notebooks: laundry notes 1917
• Needlework notes 1918
• House management notes 1918
• Laundry and cookery notes 1918

Robina Macfarlane Stephens (nee Robina Macfarlane Purdon), known as Ruby, was born in 1897  in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. She was educated at Alva Academy before attending Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated) in Glasgow, Scotland, from at least 1917 until 1918 . While at the college she studied laundry and cookery, housework, house management and needlework. After leaving college, until her marriage in 1924, she was employed as a domestic science teacher in Plymouth, Devon, England. She died in 1935 .

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Gift : family member : December 2002 : ACCN 2001/68

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GB 1847 QC Records of The Queens College, Glasgow, formerly the Glasgow & West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (Incorporated)

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