Mary Bradbury (b. circa 1900): Education and Schooling Throughout Mary Bradbury’s memoir My End Is My Beginning , there is only one mention of the education she received when she …
Nora Lumb (b.1912) Education and Schooling Blog: Part 1 “I started school when I was four years old.” (Lumb, pg. 5) Nora Lumb, a working-class citizen born in 1912. Through her …
Education and Schooling – George Clifton Hughes. Absque Labore Nihil -Nothing Without Labour- Education essentially frames the essence of George Clifton Hughes’s memoirs. Large sections of the opening passages …
Ellen Cooper (b.1921-2000) Education and Schooling: Part 1 ‘At Christmas we had a party and prize giving, and in the summer the teachers took the whole school on an outing …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Education and Schooling (Part Two) In Part One, I discussed how the teacher Mr Evans’ interactions with John on a human level transformed the dangerous perception of …
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 …
Percy Vere (H.V.Smith) (b.1913) Childhood and Education ‘My father had eight rows of allotments, and grew chrysanthemums and mint. My eldest sister and I used to have to go …
Arthur Gill. (b.1887): Education and Schooling “Even as a boy I could discern who had the best of these transactions. I made a resolution that never would I …
Adeline Hodges (b.1899): Education & Schooling Education and schooling is not a prominent theme in Adeline’s memoir, as her home and family is, but she does write about it briefly …
Doris Hunt (born 1900) : Education and Schooling Through Doris’s writing it is evident that she is extremely fond of schooling, education and reading. She flourished in school at an …
