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 …
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 …
Alfred George Henry Lay (1869-1958): Purpose and Audience The purpose and audience of Alfred George Henry Lay’s collection of diary entries entitled, ‘Adventure’, is unclear. In the biographical entry for …
John C. Sawyer (b. 1914) : Purpose and Audience ‘I am an unknown.’ John Sawyer is a man of contradiction. John introduced his memoir with an interesting declaration, asserting that ‘no …
Nora Isabel Adnams: Purpose and Audience ‘Well, Husband of mine and you, my children, this is the end of six and a half years of your old “Mum’s” …
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 …
Audience and Purpose, James Ashley (b.1833) Within James Ashley’s memoir he talks largely about his family, especially his children and speaks in great depth about their achievements, particularly about …
Arthur Gill. (b.1887): Purpose and Audience “Whole districts have been demolished and re-built, and one get the impression of living in another town altogether. But changes are inevitable, …
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 …
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 …
