home and family

Nora Hampton (1895-1918): Home and Family part two

This is my second post on Nora Hampton’s Home and Family, focusing on affective relations and memory. You can read the first …

Nora’s memoir focuses heavily on the theme of home and family and so I have written two separate posts. This one covers …

‘We had lived there for twenty four years and I will always remember it was great affection and sorrow too. It was …

David Vincent writes that ‘there was a sense in which autobiographers found themselves unable to write easily about their family life, or …

Before reading about William Wright here, make sure you have checked out Part One. It is important to see how much his …

‘we were never a family to pin our feelings on our sleeve but I look back to my dad with affection’ (p.6)… …

‘A whole house, all to ourselves, rented of course. It was wonderful’. (pg. 1)’ As indicated in the title of Ellen’s …

“My mother used to say this ‘It’s not what your wearing it’s what you make do” Mrs Yates (p.5) Naturally, many authors …

John Burnett writes that the growth of consciousness which occurs in childhood was ‘described in terms of the physical expansion of the …

“This then was my immediate family: Mam, Charlie, someone called Dad and me. We lived in No. 43 Tagus Street, off Lodge …