ABSTRACT
Feuds are fairly common and range from simple quarrels, which are not made up, to the most complicated vendettas which produce a series of lawsuits. The topics over which feuds begin are numerous, money and abuse being perhaps the most common. Mrs. L.'s mother's sister and her siblings all live in Liverpool near her. She never visits them; they never visit her. The reason for this estrangement is her marriage. Her aunt opposed her marrying a R.C. and ‘she has set them all against me’. Even her young brother, whom she looked after for eighteen months when he was six months old and who is now 17, never comes to see her. But then, of course, he still lives with his aunt. None of her family came to her wedding. A little while ago she met her aunt in the street and ‘we had words over the children’. Mrs. P. had Florrie with her and the inference was that the row was over her children being brought up as R.C.s. Her aunt struck her. Mrs. L. was so ashamed that this should happen in the street that she did not strike her back but hurried home. She said she feels sure that if her mother were alive today her mother's attitude would not be so uncharitable.
