Writing Lives
Frederick Hobley was the eldest son of Edward and Harriet Hobley. Hobley was one of ten children, six boys, Frederick, George, Harry, Edwin, Sydney and Herbert Charles, and four girls, Mary Ann, Jane, Emma and Fanny. When it comes to home and family, Frederick Hobley does not speak much of …
332 HOBLEY, Frederick, ‘From the Autobiography of Frederick Hobley – a nineteenth century schoolteacher’, Alta. The University of Birmingham Review, No. 6, Summer 1968, pp.331-9. Extract in J. Burnett (ed.), Destiny Obscure. Autobiographies of childhood, education and family from the 1820s to the 1920s (Allen Lane, London, 1982), pp. 177-82. …
Hello! This is an unexpected update for this blog. As you have read, I have already concluded this blog with my ‘Researching …
I cannot believe I have come to the end of my Writing Lives journey! Before I continue, I want to say a …
‘Chritsy’s Old Organ”, “What Katy did” to “David Copperfield”, “Oliver Twist”, “Dombey & Son”, “Robinson Crusoe” etc. and Pears Cyclopaedia which dad …
Nora was lucky enough to stay in education until she was in her late teens. She wrote about her schooling in a …
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This is my second post on Nora Hampton’s Home and Family, focusing on affective relations and memory. You can read the first …
Nora’s memoir focuses heavily on the theme of home and family and so I have written two separate posts. This one covers …
‘”They” say that it is within the ability of everyone to write one book, at least I have heard it said – …