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Life Writing, Class & Identity

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 …

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 …

Florence Powell – Life Writing, Class and Identity

In conditions of long work hours, crowded housing and inadequate light, it was difficult enough for them to contemplate themselves, but they …

Jack Lanigan (1890-1975): Life-Writing, Class & Identity

My life of eighty two years has been a wonderful experience of evolution and revolution, an evolution of having lived from the …

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 …

Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Life Writing

Working-class memoirs act as an autobiography about a person’s life as they provide an account of their life. It goes without saying …

Averil Edith Thomas: Life Writing, Class and Identity

‘… pinafores however must have been only for the “lower class”‘ (21) Averil Edith Thomas was very aware of her position in …

Bessie Wallis (b.1904): Life Writing, Class and identity.

‘At the start of the Twentieth Century, women had a very stereotypical role in British society. If married, they stayed at home to …

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 …