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Biographical Entries

An index of the Biographical entries made by the students of Writing Lives.

Annie Ford, born 1920, Biographical entry

2:291 FORD, Annie, Untitled, TS, pp.7 (c.2,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 1920 in the Collyhurst district of Manchester. Father, a …

Florence Anne Cooter (1912-2004): Biographical entry

181 COOTER, Florence Anne, ‘Seventh Child’, MS, pp.71 (c.71,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born Aug 1912 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. Father worked as …

Marion Owen: Biographical Entry

Marion Owen “I follow my nose: a potted autobiography” TS. 48pp. Born shortly before World War I, lived in Brixton, London. Before …

Claude Robinson (b.1898)

669 ROBINSON, Claude, These We Have Loved (New Horizon, Bognor Regis, 1982), pp.165 + 28pp. index, 1p. list of abbreviations, 14pp. chapter …

A.W. Todd: Biographical Entry

2/1030 TODD, A.W., “The Masons of London”, TS, pp.101 + 39pp. illustrations (c.38,000 words).Modern Department, Museum of London. An extremely useful account …

John Sawyer (b. 1914) Biographical Entry

John Sawyer. One man in his time… (Or – “The first sixty years” ) (An autobiography). 38,000 words. Born in 1914 at …

Isaac Gordon (b. 1927): Biographical Entry

2:327 GORDON, Isaac, Going Where the Work Is (Hackney Reading Centre, London, 1979), pp.34. Illustrated. Brunel University Library. Born and raised in …

Molly Keen: Biographical Entry

2:449 KEEN, Molly, ‘Childhood Memories, 1903 to 1921’, TS, pp.35 (c.12,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 1903 in Hounslow. Father a …

Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984)

2:324 GOMM, Amy Frances, ‘Water Under the Bridge’, TS, pp.163 (c.55,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 1899 in the Oxfordshire village of …

Bessie Wallis (b.1904) Biographical entry

2:794 WALLIS, Bessie, ‘Yesterday’, TS, pp.31 (c.12,000 words). Extract published in J. Burnett (ed.), Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of childhood, education and family …