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Purpose & Audience

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 …

Like many other autobiographical writers Ernest Richard Shotton was very much about playing down his memoir. He intended the memoir to be private and wrote that if it was published, he did not want the names … → November 9, 2015

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 …