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Life Writing, Class & Identity

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 …

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 …

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 …