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 …
Annie Ford (1920 Onwards): Life Writing and Class Identity After engaging thoroughly in Annie Ford’s insightful memoir of her life as a child growing up in the 1920’s and 1930’s in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Rosa Bell (b. 1902): Life Writing, Class & Identity “In those days how did we pass our time, you would no doubt say – well it must have been awful – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Olive Doris Gold (1897-1977): War, Memory & Life Writing Living through a World War no small feat, but Olive managed to live through both. Olive first mentions how war impacted her …
