Doris Hunt (1900) : Purpose and Audience Doris Hunt starts her memoirs off in a very normal fashion, telling us her date and place of birth, ‘I was born …
Edith Annie Williams (b. Nov. 1899): Purpose & Audience ‘If I have a message at all it is that one should accept life’s challenges, no matter what form they take: the …
Amy Frances Gomm: (b.1899): Purpose and Audience ‘The present is so fun; the future so uncertain. There’s no time for the past; that past which had its own …
Mary Laura Triggle (1888-1985): Purpose and Audience. ‘PS. please forgive an old woman just having a little talk with you’ (pg. 22) Mary’s memoir is in the style …
Jack Vallance (b. 1914) – Purpose and Audience Written as a reflective memoir, Jack Vallance gives little away with regards to writing dates nor the intended audience he had in …
Annie Lord (b.1899): Purpose and Audience “… so I had to carry on the Best I could th[r]ou[gh] life…” Lord, p:1 Regenia Gagnier, author of Social Atoms: Working-Class Autobiography, …
Anthony Errington (1778-1848): Purpose and Audience The reason of my wrighting the particulars of my life and transactions are to inform my famely and the world. I write …
Harry Dorrell (B.1903): Purpose and Audience ‘I do not want to die. I do not want to leave my loved and loving family and my secret life, secret …
Mrs W.E. Palmer (b.1908): Purpose and Audience Complying with her recurrent theme of mystery, Mrs W.E. Palmer does not specify who her intended audience was, or even the reason …
Mrs RM Downer (b. 1884): Purpose and Audience At first glance, RM Downer’s autobiography seems to have been written out of a sense of nostalgia. The title, ‘A Bygone Age’, …
