Megan Ainsworth

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Politics, Protest & Class

“I was a Communist and I hope a revolutionary” (107-108) Hymie Fagan was a British Communist, who had devoted himself to the …

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Reading & Writing

“I had developed from early age an insatiable thirst for reading” (16) Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Jeffery Farnol and Talbot Baines Reed …

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Purpose & Audience

“I wanted to write” (52) reveals Hymie Fagan. Quite simply we know his purpose. His memoir titled, ‘An Autobiography’ holds no significance, …

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Researching Writing Lives

In the beginning of my research for Writing Lives it was my priority to grasp an understanding of the British working-classes. I …

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Habits, Culture & Beliefs

Where habits, cultures and beliefs were concerned, Hymie Fagan’s childhood was rigidly Jewish. The ‘cockney urchin’ (29) grew up in the district …

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Life & Labour

As a twentieth century writer, Hymie Fagan writes about a period in which the nature of employment had changed since the nineteenth …

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): War, Memory & Life Writing

“Chauvinism flourished” (39) Hymie Fagan lived through the First and Second World War. He remembers the First World War spreading “huge waves …

http://www.friendsreunited.com/commercial-street-school/Memory/a9a2d999-9563-4787-a28d-a0650098c27f

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Education & Schooling

“It was not education for living, but for work” (32) explains Hymie Fagan about his education at the Westborough Road Boys School. …

http://archive.museumoflondon.org.uk/RWWC/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=747207

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): Home & Family

The importance of the Home and Family in a working-class environment was crucial to financial stability and survival. Essentially, the male breadwinner, …

Hymie Fagan (1903-1988): An Introduction

Meet the Jewish Communist, Hymie Fagan! The riveting and political context to his, ‘An Autobiography’ reveals the life of a working-class politician. …

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