Walter John Eugene Elliott (1890-1977): Purpose and Audience Many working-class people felt that they had to apologise for writing their memoirs. They often felt that they held little importance and …
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 …
Dora R. Hannan (1909-2001): Purpose and Audience “In the following pages, I have endeavoured to convey how wonderful women, like my mother, carried on against sometimes fearful odds, to …
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 …
George Gregory (b.1888): Purpose and Audience Not once during People > Ideas does George raise the subject of why he’s writing. Neither purpose nor audience is addressed; we …
Adeline Hodges (b.1899): Purpose & Audience ‘Yes times have changed and the greater part for the better, but don’t believe that the old days were all bad. We …
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 …
William Belcher (1884-1961) – Purpose and Audience William Belcher’s memoir describes his life from childhood to adulthood, through his own chronological accounts, and is able to present a vast picture of his life to …
Thomas McLauchlan (1888-1979): Purpose and Audience “You may ask the question, why have you written all this, about your life? Firstly, my family suggested that I should write …
May Jones: Purpose and Audience “The little village where I lived was on the outskirts of a large manufacturing town, where all the mills found work for …
