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Life Writing, Class & Identity

Mary Denison (1906 – 1997): Life writing, class and identity.

‘But your nursey years were running to a close, your private school years, your childhood years. All running to a close, coming …

A.W Todd: Work Pays. Leisure and Recreation

In keeping with the work orientated themes, we come to the most revered day in the workers monthly calendar; Pay day. And …

Lilian Westall (born 1893): Life-Writing, Class and Identity

The early 1900’s and throughout the First World War created much stress on families and class divide. The level of poverty …

Alexander Howison (b.1795): Class & Identity

Regeina Gagnier’s ‘Working-Class Autobiography, Subjectivity, and Gender.’ she comments that working class writers start autobiographies ‘with an apology for their authors’ ordinariness’. Alexander does …

Alice Maud Chase (1880-1968): Life Writing, Class & Identity

Alice’s life writing best fits into the political narrative form. This is outlined by Regenia Gagnier as being written by those with …

Thomas R. Flintoff (1904-1994): Life Writing, Class & Identity

The memoir titled ‘Friday The Thirteenth Of May’ (Thomas R. Flintoff, date unknown) best fits into the political narrative form. This is …

Stephen Forsdick (b. 1835): Life Writing, Class and Identity

I offer no words of advise to the youth of today, knowing full well that it would be useless. My experience will …

Ernest Richard Shotton (Born 1878): Life Writing, Class and Identity

Regenia Gagnier argues that the working class autobiography changed in the way it was written in the 19th century. She argues that “bourgeois …

Emanuel Lovekin (1820-1905): Life Writing, Class and Identity

Regenia Gagnier argues that 19th Century working-class autobiographies did not fit the classic model for autobiographical writing. I think that two of …

Doris Hunt (1900): Life Writing and Class Identity

In ‘Social Atoms: Working Class Autobiography, Subjectivity and Gender’, Regenia Gagnier distinguishes working class autobiographies into six different categories. I believe that …