May Jones: Education and Schooling “I loved going to school and cried a bit when no one was looking.” May Jones’s memoir is about her life growing …
Jean Court: Education and Schooling (Part 2) ‘The school was intended for delicate children and the teachers were gentle and encouraging.’ (p. 10) Following her difficulties at school, Jean …
Jean Court: Education and Schooling (Part 1) ‘Mary found her schooldays quite acceptable but I did not.’ (p. 6) Within Jean Court’s memoir, education and schooling are two recurrent …
C.V. Horner (1897–1980): Education and Schooling After chronicling the anecdotes and memories of his childhood, Horner begins the second chapter of his memoir by reminiscing about walking a …
Dorothy Squires (b.1897): Education and Schooling Dorothy’s education was very important to her. She attended Holy Trinity School in Waltham Cross and her earliest memories of the education …
Ruth Cox (1890): Education and Schooling ‘I started to work at 13’ (White Knobs Row, p9) Education, particularly the education Ruth received during her time in school, was …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Education and Schooling (Part 2.) ‘I recall an early occasion of telling my father of our being given the choice of learning a foreign language & that …
Thomas McLauchlan (1888-1979): Education and Schooling “When I was five years old I went to school. I cannot remember much about it except that I stayed there until …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Education and Schooling (Part 1.) ‘I was no genius, but I seemed to have more than average intelligence.’ (5) Edith dedicates large portions of her memoir to …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): Education and Schooling ‘Schooldays were carefree and happy, we had little money, but we enjoyed life to the full’ (10). In ‘Down Memory Lane’, Cecil …
