Mary Bradbury (b. circa 1900): Illness, Health and Disability For all the hard labour endured, and all the great memories Mary reminisces on, she experienced health problems when she was a …
Norah Elliott (b.1903): Illness, Health & Disability Much of Norah’s memoir discusses illness, both physical and mental. Norah’s ancestors, her siblings and Norah herself suffered with illness and disability. Norah …
Doris Hunt (1900): Illness, Health and Disability The prospect of illness was not uncommon within the Hunt household. It inevitably ended in tragedy. The first instance was when Doris and …
Edward Cain (1891-1978): Health Edward Cain’s memoir shows that his family had endured some sad times. On the last page of the transcript (Reminiscences from the …
Harry Dorrell (B. 1903): Illness, Health & Disability ‘Living, is for me a daily battle to be fought against this terminal illness and so very far from the terminus.’ (Prologue) …
Eleanor Hutchinson (B 1915) Illness, Health and Disability I was sure he had magic powers and that none of us would get ill any more (Hutchinson 34) For the average …
Jim Ingram (b.1912): Disability As has been mentioned throughout previous blogs about Jim Ingram’s memoir, he ‘had been born a cripple and could not walk very …
Winifred Relph (B.1912): Illness, Health and Disability ‘I never remembered being in such pain before, my body and arms as well as my legs and feet throbbed and ached, …
