Norah Fearon Knight (1910-2000): Purpose and Audience “I had hoped to end on a happy note, but while I have been writing, two more of the family have gone …
Ken Hayter (b.1940): Purpose and Audience “All the events in the tales are as true as my memory allows and, whilst the characters are fictional, they can be …
Molly Keen Childhood Memories (1903-1921): Purpose and Audience The audience that Molly Keen is aiming her childhood memoir at is unclear, as she appears to simply list many of the …
Maud Clarke (1887-1982): Purpose and Audience In 1974, social historian John Burnett appealed to the working-class authors of the nation on BBC’s Woman’s Hour to send him their …
Purpose and Audience The above image is an extract from Edna Bold’s memoir. She included the words in her foreword that allow her to create …
Faizur Rasul (b. 1910): Purpose & Audience For nearly all of Faizur Rasul’s autobiography, he is primarily concerned with everything but himself, or in his own words, he has …
Martha Martin (b.1871): Purpose & Audience But if I had ever thought I might have written all this, I would have kept a diary Martha Martin, ‘The Ups …
Arthur P Jacobs: Purpose and Audience In Arthur’s memoir, he very much speaks for himself in a very personal way. His memoir is almost a chain of memories …
Mary Denison (1906-1997): Purpose and Audience. ‘The old Vicarage – its bones and frame; every part of it was alive with its own special life and having its …
William Wright (b.1846): Purpose and Audience From the title of William Wright’s memoir, ‘From Chimney-Boy to Councillor’, we know his life is work-focused. There is also going to …
