China
Called Me – My Life Inside the Chinese Revolution
By Percy
Chen
Published
by Little Brown (ISBN
0-316-13849-5)
Copyright
1979
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Page 9
My
early education was received from a young lady, Edith McVorhan.
She was one of many daughters of the McVorhan family who lived in
Woodford Street. She tutored
me until 1908, when I left for a stay in England with my mother and
father, at the age of seven. In
London we lived in Earl’s Court. My
parents returned to Trinidad, and I spent a school year at Grosvenor
House, a girl’s school in Bath, in company with my
cousin Stella Rooks, a striking blonde.
The school was for girls only but, on account of my undoubted
charm, I was accepted as a student – the only boy.
I remember that on Saturdays I was allowed to buy a box of
chocolates with delicious marzipan centers.
Since then I cannot pass a shop selling marzipan, be it in Vienna,
Paris, or New York, without purchasing at least an ounce or two.
Another sweetmeat to which I am partial is marrons glacés.
I got this taste from my father, who used to drive specially to a
house in Woodford Street, Port of Spain, where an old lady of French
extraction made these sweets.
