Louise Shore: Emigrating
During the post war period there were a lot of immigrants from Jamaica: “Between 1948 and 1970 nearly half a million people …
Louise Shore: Race and Gender
Shore had grown up in Jamaica, surrounded by black people. There are no mentions of racism in any form, physical, verbal or …
Louise Shore, born 1930s: Home and Family
“My ambition was always to be good” (9) Louise Shore grew up in Ewarton, Jamaica. Ewarton is a town in the parish …
Louise Shore: Researching Writing Lives
Researching writing lives has been a very new experience for me. I have read factual and fictional stories of a similar genre …
Louise Shore, born 1930s: Housing in London
One of the biggest struggles Louise Shore faced when she emigrated from Jamaica to London was finding somewhere to live. Shore’s female …
Louise Shore, born 1930s: Habits, Culture and Beliefs
Louise Shore does not speak much of her religious beliefs. She went to Sunday school as a child but that was because …
Louise Shore: Reading and Writing
To modern day readers, Louise Shore’s experience of reading and writing is hard to comprehend. Even as an adult Shore struggled with …
Louise Shore, born 1930s: Life and Labour
Louise Shore mentions several different jobs throughout her memoir, both when she lived in Jamaica and then when she moved to London, …
Louise Shore: An Introduction
“Yes, that was my ambition, to write a book.” (9) Louise Shore was born in Jamaica in the 1930s. No exact date …
Louise Shore: Education and Schooling
“I was very bright, I could remember that, because they never beat me at school, because all my arithmetic, I could do …