Tag Archives: hardships

Fame at her Fingertips

Bunty, ,

Plot

Disabled Joyce Landon’s one aim in life was to be a famous concert pianist – but her mother refused to give her any support or allow her to play the grand piano at home. Only Joyce’s grandmother helped her but then she became seriously ill. Though she had managed to get into the local School of Music and pay for her uniform herself, she was devastated when her gran died.

Notes

Appeared

  • Fame at her Fingertips – Bunty: #138 (3 September 1960) – (?) (1961)

Sarah – Slave of Darkness

Mandy, , ,

Plot

In the 1800s, young Sarah Brown worked with scores of other unfortunate children in a coal mine. Only the hope that she might find a clue in the mine to prove that her father had not caused the disastrous explosion in which six men had been killed, enabled her to continue to work in the dreadful conditions in the pit. Her father, Jeremy Brown, had lost his memory in the accident and Sarah had to look after him in addition to earning a living.

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Appeared

  • Sarah – Slave of Darkness – Mandy: #275 (22 April 1972) – #284 (24 June 1972)