Maud Clarke (b. 1887): Home and Family
Maud’s home life was something to be desired by other working-class families living in Tipton at that time, certainly if we consider the …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): Purpose and Audience
‘I call myself a social atom – a small speck on the surface of society’ – W.E Adams Identifying Maud’s intended audience …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): Life and Labour Part Two – Teaching
Following on from one of my previous posts about the Life and Labour of Maud Clarke, I felt it only fitting to …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): An Introduction
De nobis fabula narrateur – Their story is our story Searching through the hundreds of memoirs collected together by John Burnett, David …
Researching Writing Lives
Having taken the module Prison Voices in my second year of university, I found that blogging was an excellent way for students …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): Family Tree
When beginning this module and having been fortunate enough to come across Maud’s wonderful autobiography, I always wanted to be able to …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): Education and Schooling
‘Schools were very different to what they are today’ (Maud Clarke, p. 5) We begin to read about Maud’s experiences regarding education …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): Reading and Writing
Being from a large family, we could presume that it was difficult for Maud to get the desired attention to her reading …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): Life and Labour
‘It opened at six o’clock in the morning, and stayed often without a break, until eleven o’clock at night.’ (Maud Clarke, p. …
Maud Clarke (b. 1887): War and Memory
Maud’s memoir ‘Untitled’ was written in 1978, long after the conclusion of the World Wars. Yet whilst she evidently lived through both …