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Leah Magee

George Acorn – Purpose & Audience (b. Late 19)

‘Most working-class autobiographies begin not with a family lineage or a birthdate but rather with an apology for their authors’ ordinariness, encoded …

George Acorn – Labour, politics & class (b. Late 19th C)

The industrial revolution and the late 19th century brought around some huge changes for the lives of those in lower classes in …

George acorn – Habits, culture & beliefs (b. Late 19th C)

There is a few passing comments of religion during One of the Multitude, although interactions with churches, chapels and religious company were …

George Acorn – Reading and writing (b. Late 19th C)

By Leah Magee (Berthoug, 2021) ‘As a genre, the working-class autobiography originates around 1800-here too the reading revolution marked a watershed, when …

George Acorn – Education and Schooling (b. Late 19th C)

One of a multitude, is an extremely well-written memoir, although it recollects on the hard upbringings of a working-class boy in the …

George Acorn – Home, Family & Childhood (b. Late 19th C)

By Leah Magee Throughout One of a Multitude, George mentions his family constantly and his battles with his loyalty to them or …

Introducing George Acorn -One Of the Multitude (b. Late 19th C)

By Leah Magee From the ratty ways of the east end, is the biography One of the multitude (Acorn, 1912)was written throughout …