Neville's mother imagines noble futures for her children

Neville recalls his mother darning the children's socks while dreaming a noble future for each of them — and not sparing her shoe when they did wrong — and says she left the world with that dream fixed in her mind and it came true.
Date (happened)
between 1905 and September 1922
unresolved
  1. before 10 November 1959 bound
    Source The Only Christianity ¶32passage 529314 in lecture nid 1065; Neville recalls his mother's earlier conduct and says she left the world
    Reasoning The whole passage is retrospective: his mother darned the children's socks and disciplined them, and had already left the world before Neville narrated this on 1959-11-10. It supports only an upper bound, not an exact happening date.
  2. between 1905 and September 1922 estimated · possible
    Source The Only Christianity ¶32
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 002)
    Reasoning Passage 529314: 'when she darned our socks' and 'never spared her shoe' describe raising the children at home; Neville was born in 1905 and left Barbados in 1922 (residence 20457). Her death (1941) is a separate matter.
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Wilhelmina Goddard
Told
  1. 10 November 1959 stated
    Source The Only ChristianityThe Only Christianity (nid 1065), telling 1065-4, told 1959-11-10
Sources

Source

  • The Only Christianity ¶32 (I know my mother when she darned our socks dreamed for each of us of a future of which she would be proud. Everyone of us is living a noble life and I know she dreamed it for all of us. She never spared her shoe, wham! If you did something wrong.)