Unlike many other working-class autobiographies, Kathleen does not open her memoir with an apology for her ordinariness. She acknowledges her insignificance only …
Kathleen Hilton-Foord writes about her childhood in retrospect, from an age old enough to have mothered three children (‘Epilogue’, Grannie’s Girl). Although …
Changing policies in the early twentieth century with regard to compulsory education, such as The 1902 Balfour Education Act, meant that unlike children …