As someone who went to the same school as Glenda Jackson – West Kirby grammar school for girls – and counted one of her sisters as a classmate, I have to take issue with the claim in your obituary (15 June) that she grew up in poverty. Both her parents were working and the family lived in a decent house in a pleasant coastal village. She was, rather, what could be described as a member of the respectable working class.
Alex Percy
Easton, Hampshire
• I won’t be the only citizen of Edinburgh (and elsewhere in Scotland) who is a tenement dweller to take exception to the quick crossword clue “Run-down building divided into flats”, with “tenement” as the answer (17 June). Tenemental living is perfectly normal in Scotland and ranges from the very grand to the more prosaic, but run-down is not some defining characteristic.
Iain Black
Edinburgh
