Jack Goring (1861-1942): An Introduction ‘Life appears to me to be like an escalator but in the form of a switchback it has its ups and downs, …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): Audience and Purpose ‘Nip and Flip began it’ (1) – Who, you may ask are Nip and Flip? All the autobiography reveals is that Nip and …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): Home and Family ‘That we were all and always very poor is most certain but I am equally certain that as children we did not …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): Education and Schooling ‘Our rooms were small but I remember [my mother] had forms made to take the children of the neighbourhood who were …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): Reading and Writing ‘I never was and never should be a scholar and when I think of the books and myself I seem to have …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): Habits, Culture and Belief ‘If I’d all the money that I could tell, I’d never cry out young lambs to sell Young lambs to sell; Young …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): Life and Labour ‘My father figured in my imagination as the strongest man in London – many a boy has such thoughts of his …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): Politics and Protest ‘An Aspiration Ah, God, for an open mind, Ready to lose and to find; Teachable, quick to discern And brave to unlearn …
Jack Goring (1861 – 1942): War, Memory and Life Writing In 1914 Jack and his wife Jane, celebrated their silver wedding anniversary. Their neighbour, the Fischers, gave them a beautiful vase of …
Jack Goring: Researching Writing Lives The ‘Writing Lives’ module appealed to me as soon as I read through the LJMU level six options booklet. I had pretty …
