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Biographical Entries

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Kathleen M. Lindley (b. 1920)

“A Time to be Born”. Typescript. 98pp. 1976. Memories of her childhood in 1920s and 1930s. Born c.1920. Hong Kong. Begins with …

Mabel F Lethbridge (1900-1968)

Extract from “Fortune Grass”,London, Geoffrey Bles, 1934. Photocopies from the book. Pp61-65; 74-77; 79-88; 177-184; 227-235 Middle class parents; her father served …

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 …

Nora Lumb (b.1912) Bibliographical Entry

Childhood memories starting from 1912 in Sunderland. Concentrating on Nora’s poor but happy childhood surrounded by her parents and siblings. Information on …