Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Researching Writing Lives. I was extremely fascinated by the concept of researching and creating an author blog when I first began the Writing Lives module. …
Miss P. Wilson (b.1918-) Politics and Protest Although on the surface, it does not seem like Miss Wilson was politically driven. There are things she mentions that convey a …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Education and Schooling. So shall I have to go to school again? (13). Within Mary’s memoir, she talks very little of her school days. …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Life and Labour ‘we had a dreadful over looker she was really frightening, we were not allowed to talk to the girls who sat next …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Home and Family: Part 1 ‘I also can look back & I think to me that was the highlight of my youth….’ (11). Mary’s memoir is predominantly …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888- 1985): Habits, Culture and Belief. (Part Two) I do think how different life could have been if father had not gone to throw rotten fruit at the preacher…’ (14) …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): An introduction. I think the young today don’t get the real joy that we had (pg.7). Mary Laura Triggle, maiden name, Sutton, was …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Illness, Health and Disability ‘So there again mother got the first folding invalid chair’ (21) Mary’s memoir recalls how her parents faced illness and disability throughout …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888- 1985): Habits, Culture and Belief. (Part One) They had…a lot of rotten oranges which they intended to throw at the preacher, but that day my father got converted in …
Writing Lives and the Burnett Collection of Working-Class Autobiography Writing Lives is a final-year module on the BA English degree at Liverpool John Moores University, taught by Helen Rogers. Autobiographies are …
