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 …
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 …
Thomas Raymont (1864-1949): Purpose and Audience ‘The story of a life so quiet as mine would be of little importance except to personal friends, unless it is so …
Claude Robinson (b.1898) – Purpose and Audience Claude Robinson’s memoir depicts his life as a teacher and more broadly ‘the history of the school’ in the town of Jarrow …
Ellen Cooper (b.1921-2000): Purpose and Audience ‘Life-writing is intimately connected to the body and the passing of time’ (Rogers and Cuming; 2018, 185). Ellen Cooper’s unpublished memoir is …
Leslie John Robinson (b.1929): Purpose and Audience. The reason for writing a memoir can sometimes be detrimental to understanding why the authors have discussed these significant moments in their …
Patricia Saville (B.1933): Purpose and Audience For my second to last blog post I’ll be briefly talking about Patricia’s target audience and the purpose of her writing. Unlike …
Amy Gomm (b.1899-1984) : Purpose and Audience ‘The depths of grief, the peaks of happiness – they’re all water under the bridge now, to be forgotten unless we do …
Mabel Florence Lethbridge (1900-1968): Purpose and Audience To My MOTHER IN EXPLANATION ‘The years of war had left their mark on Mother. My accident had nearly broken her heart …
Fred Baxter (1908-1997): Purpose and Audience Fred Baxter’s memoir, ‘Cemetery Side of 83 Years: The Life Story of a Bury St. Edmunds man’, was written in September 1991 …
