C.V. Horner (1897–1980): Purpose and Audience Right from the beginning of the memoir, C.V. Horner states that he decided to write it ‘At the request of [his] friends’ …
Ruth Cox (born 1890): Purpose and Audience “Both of you are only sharing a little part of my life but I wished you both to read about the historical …
Frederick Charles Wynne: Purpose and Audience ‘The market in those days included many stalls on both sides of the street selling plants in full flower at ha’penny each. …
Stephen Forsdick (b.1835): Purpose & Audience To my dear daughter whose untiring efforts in assisting me in getting the scattered pages of my life’s history into readable shape …
Joe Ayre (b.1910): Purpose and Audience ‘The working class of the British Isles made great sacrifices during the 1914-1918 war (…) the Capitalists were in competition with each …
Cecil George Harwood (1894 – 1983): Purpose and Audience ‘Whether busy, slack or rushed it was always interesting. Meeting people from all walks of life was a pleasure’ (97). In his …
Frank Prevett (b.1904): Purpose and Audience Frank Prevett’s memoirs are entitled ‘Memoirs of a Railwayman’, which draws in an audience of colleagues in the industry during and after …
Charles Whiten Sanderson. (1906-1990): Purpose and Audience. ‘Any comments I make are necessarily those as seen through the eyes of a working-class boy and a half educated young man.’- …
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 …
John Edmonds (1911-1984): Purpose and Audience A visit to his childhood home in 1948 spurred John Edmonds to ‘set down a record of people and memories with the …
